Items can only be moved when pressing hard on touch device (Microsoft Surface)

[northwoodssoftware]

Items can only be moved when pressing hard on touch device (Microsoft Surface)

[simonsarris]

Thanks, we'll take a look.

[simonsarris]

I do see what you mean. This is actually intentional.

For touch events, we have a delay in the dragging tool on starting it in order to allow easier panning. If you do not like this simply set the DraggingTool.delay to 0:

    myDiagram = $(go.Diagram, "myDiagramDiv",
                  {
                    "draggingTool.delay": 0,
                     ...

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Some background:

The versions you are getting "immediate" behavior in are not using PointerEvents in IE, instead they're using IE's simulated Mouse events. These versions have some issues, the most obvious one being dragging between Diagrams (you can see that you can't drop from the Palette in 1.8.10's flowchart).

Chrome and Firefox don't emit simulated mouse events, instead they emit touch events, so they already work this way, with the delay.

[dominic-simplan]

I see, so it wasn't about pressing hard after all 😃 .
I have changed the delay to 20 and now it's what I've expected. Thanks also for the background information!