Calculate swipe distance in jQuery-mobile

Question

I hope you are well today, I am trying to calculate the swipe distance (a touch gesture) on a mobile website, how would you work out how many pixels the user has swiped acro

Answer 1

Not sure if this helps but with Beta 2 they have released some additional swipe functionality

• http://jquerymobile.com/blog/2011/08/03/jquery-mobile-beta-2-released/

Configurable swipe event thresholds added

There were a number of hard-coded constants in the jquery.mobile.event.js swipe code. For developers who need to tweak those constants to allow a greater vertical displacement and still register a swipe, this new feature allows them to be adjusted. Thanks to mlitwin for contributing this.

• scrollSupressionThreshold (default: 10px) – More than this horizontal displacement, and we will suppress scrolling
• durationThreshold (default: 1000ms) – More time than this, and it isn’t a swipe
• horizontalDistanceThreshold (default: 30px) – Swipe horizontal displacement must be more than this.
• verticalDistanceThreshold (default: 75px) – Swipe vertical displacement must be less than this.