Questions tagged [touchscreen]

A touchscreen is an electronic visual display that can detect the presence and location of a touch within the display area. (Wikipedia)

A touchscreen is an electronic visual display that can detect the presence and location of a touch within the display area. Wikipedia

Newer touchscreen electronics are generally capacitive whereas older less expensive designs are resistive. Resistive screens need physical contact and are more prone to wear.

See also:

  • for issues in programming touch interfaces.
  • for issues with multiple touch interfaces.
  • for question about different finger/stylus motion in a UI.
  • for question about using the touch hardware to recognize a gesture.
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Drag-and-rotate interface: how to make it work on a touchscreen?

Here is a scoreboard / life counter (for tabletop games) which I made: http://robsmisc.com/dual-score-demo.html There are two odometer-like counters, shown using SVG graphics, and the idea is that you can simply "dial in" the numbers you wish to…
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Set Orientation of ILI 9325 TFT diaplay

I am working on a project which requires to interface TFT display with ILI9325 driver. I have successfully initialized the display but I am not able to rotate the display. Please suggest me the register and value to inserted in that to set the…
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touch event of surface 2.0 apps doesn't work in windows 10

i want to create new touch app for window desktop and i used surface 2.0 SDK for that, but my app doesn't get touch events in ScatterView or any control in my app. i have multi-touch all-in-one PC and my touch screen work good on windows and other…
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Is there a way in AutoHotkey to know between a mouse click and touchscreen click

I have two monitors one of them is a touchscreen. do somebody now a simple code in autohotkey. that you received a value, between a mouse click and a touchscreen click I use for example Photoshop application on my main monitor 1 And I have a…
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Google Chrome touch events not firing

I'm building a touchscreen kiosk using Chrome (7.0.536.2 dev) in kiosk mode on a Windows 7 PC with multi-touch display. I can see that the ontouchstart event is available (by inspecting the window object in Webkit Web Inspector) but it never fires.…
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How to run an Apple tvOS or IOS app, on an external Touchscreen Monitor

It looks like Apple developers are not able to develop an app that is presented on an external TOUCHSCREEN monitor. Strange but true? Is there any way around this? See this similar question answered by Apple:…
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Icon stays after keypress in Kivy

After keypress there is round blue icon on the screen and it stays forever... (screen shot attached). Touchscreen is working correctly - there is no icon after I press the screen. The problem appears when I use USBKeyboard attached to…
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Qml QTouchDevice

I am new in Qt. I am working on windows desktop application and using Qt with qml. On PC that hasn't QTouchDevices, splitter between component (element that allow you resize component on window) works good with mouse (screenshot "Good distance"),…
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Gnome double click on touchscreen

I can't get double clicking to work on a Surface Pro 3 (Fedora; Kernel 4.28; Gnome 3.18, Gtk3). Two fast consecutive taps are not converted to a 2button event in Gtk+. See the small Python program below, which works fine for a normal mouse or touch…
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Making my website menu touch friendly (drop down)

I'm building a small site with a simple drop down menu. On desktop when you hover over an item, you get a drop down list, simple. However, on touch screens that doesn't work properly, I can click on a item and it will generate the drop down, but I…
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Detecting touch properties of the screen

Is there a way in QML or Qt or C++ to know if the screen (or the platform) support tactile, and more specifically, if the screen support multitouch Is this even possible ? EDIT : On windows it seems we could try to enumerate the device to find one…
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C# - Winforms - Custom Drag Image is Not Displayed When Dragging by Touch

I have an old WinForms app written in C# with custom drag and drop capabilities. And this app has an issue when it is run on a touch screen device, such as the Surface Pro 3. Basically there is a treeview control that allows the items to be dragged…
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Window that is supposed to be fullscreen in WPF touchscreen application is moving when inner listbox is scrolled

I am writing a GUI application to run on a touchscreen device using VB.NET and WPF--it must be full screen at all times, like a kiosk app; the window must not be able to resize or move in any way. The window contains a ListBox that users can…
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Recording the time of the start of a screen touch in PsychoPy on Windows

I'm helping to implement an experiment using PsychoPy on a Windows 8 tablet. It doesn't seem to be possible to get direct access to touch events through either PsychoPy, or the pyglet or PyGame interfaces. Most other sources I've found have referred…
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CSS - Show elements on touchscreen devices only

I've got layout in which 80% of buttons are icons with tooltip describing the function appearing on :hover Is it possible using CSS and Media Queries only to show additional class (for example .button-info) if website is viewed on touchscreen…
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