Since mobile/touch implementation was stripped out in v17, is there a WIP re-implementation-as-an-extension in the wild yet?

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So v16 had a semi-working/semi-broken implementation of mobile touch support for panning/dragging/etc.

v17 removed it entirely:

With the aim to re-add it, most probably as an extension, and do it “correctly” this time.

I was wondering if there is a work-in-progress implementation of this yet? Either as an extension, or a custom module, in userland maybe. I couldn’t spot anything. And it’s confusing because if you search for touch support you get a lot of really old issues about it but nothing since it the release of v17.

I need to be able to use bpmn-js on an iPad so I’m hoping something comes out soon that works on the latest version.

Many thanks for any links or insights!

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Within the team, we are not currently working on the touch support. If you are willing to implement it as a community extension, we will gladly feature it at GitHub - bpmn-io/awesome-bpmn-io: A curated list of bpmn.io related projects and resources.
You can also just copy the removed touch support module to your project. It should still semi-work.

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Hello,

Is there any update on mobile/touch implementation?
I believe we are a few that would like to use it on our tablets (regardless of manufacturer)

Thank you!

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No update for now. Does the tool not work entirely for you, or is it just limited?

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Hi @barmac, I quickly took the chance to check demo.bpmn.io on my iPad.

Good News: handwriting labels with a pen is supported.
Auto layouting of appended elements works.
Changing the type with the wrench tool works.

But you cannot move selected elements.
And connecting two elements with a sequence flow from the context menu fails as you can just select but not move in the context menu.
Resizing of annotation fails.

Cheers, Ingo

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Thanks for the test @Ingo_Richtsmeier! So there’s some room for external contributor; touch support is not high in our priorities right now.