I'm trying to set up a system where I have two computers: a powerful desktop, and a tablet that I can carry around easily. The tablet may be the Notion Ink Adam, Motorola XOOM, or another one I haven't looked at yet. It may even run Windows 7 instead of Android, but I doubt that.
Anyway, I would want to control the main desktop from the tablet, using RDP, VNC, or something similar (may be a proprietary protocol). What I want to know is, if the tablet supports multitouch (which it probably will), will I be able to make gestures which the main computer (running Windows 7) will be able to recognize as multitouch gestures? I'm not talking about "pinch to zoom" on the tablet client, where I can zoom in on an area of the screen to see it better but where the desktop doesn't know anything about it; I want to be able to, say, rotate a picture in Windows Photo Gallery, or use multiple fingers to select text. I haven't seen anything either way saying if this is possible.
Do you know if RDP supports this, and, if not (either you don't know or you know it doesn't), do you know of something that does?
Best Answer
Yes, it does. Proof is that the Windows Simulator coupled with the new Visual Studio with Metro supports multi touch. It loopbacks an RDP connection to your Windows 8 system and allows you to use your mouse as finger and some gestures work too. It's for testing touch apps without the screen, by the way.