not so finger-friendly phone

[Guest speleomaniac]

when i press and hold my finger/stylus on the screen (in any app, blank space on today screen or task/title bar), the system process "gwes.exe" uses up to %70 cpu on my phone, resulting in performance loss. seems like a driver issue, most touchscreen winmo devices suffer from this problem.

unfortunately this is discouraging me (and probably other developers) from writing some cool finger-friendly applications/games.

well, does anyone know if is there a fix for this?

btw this seems like a standart windoze feature to me. i remember that WinNT had the same feature: press the mouse button on the empty desktop and the cpu goes up to %100... not much improvement since the last 15 years... B)

Edited December 4, 2008 by speleomaniac

[Guest lastnikita]

45% for mine (even when moving around the screen).

Yep, it's an old problem most WM devices are suffering from.

I thought it was a resolved issue since WM6/6.1 but it seems not B)

you still can do some stuff even in 3d anyway.

[Guest Ingvarr]

With resistive touchscreens you must generally refrain from using "drag" gestures, at least that more or less prolonged.

Try to design your finger-friendly app around simple "click" actions, and it will be fine.

Edited December 5, 2008 by Ingvarr