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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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Handle touchscreen gesture in Tkinter

How would I go about installing a handler of touchscreen gestures in Tkinter? I need to something particularly simple: to increase the font size whenever an 'expand' gesture is detected. Is this even possible to do in Tkinter if Tcl/Tk doesn't…
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Touchscreen scroll disable

For my work i have to create help file on a touchscreen application. Normally the page is scrollable by touch, which is fine, but now they asked me to create some movable popup, and the movement interferes with the scroll of the touchscreen. Is…
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Enable touch events in node webkit

Im using a custom touchscreen and I want to activate by default the touch event in node-webkit, is that possible? This one tell node-webkit how to open the app and control how the browser behaves. Update: I'm using Ubuntu like OS, all functionality…
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Writing linux kernel mode driver for custom touch screen

I'm having some difficulties writing a kernel mode driver on debian wheezy for a custom touch screen, that has driver only for windows. My main problem is, that I have absolutely no experience in driver programming, apart from the tutorial…
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Raspberry Pi, java, SPI and Touchscreens

I´m intending to build some java apps to be run on a raspberry pi, the main thing is that I intend them to be used with a touchscreen (not too expensive of course) I´ve been reading about SPI communication an GPIO also, but I still have some…
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Recognize active objects with a capacitive touch screen display

I'm trying to develop an app that can recognize an active object (for example: a memory) that touch the smartphone display. Before I start to develop I've to know if there's any objects that my touch screen display can recognize? Which device can be…
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Handling 3 finger tap in Android

I am using OnTouchListener to capture multitouch events for ex. a 3 finger tap , I could able to detect up to 2 fingers. i.e event.getPointerCount() returns upto 2. Even same with onTouchEvent(). Is there any other API for handling this ? I have…
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CSS3 Dropdown Menu hover doesn't work

my website is using a pure CSS3 dropdown menu. The problem is when the website is view on touch screen device, some of the menu item with hover property doesn't auto drop down. How can I change it to be like, if the menu item has a hover dropdown,…
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Raspberry Pi Raspbian Web Kiosk Virtual Keyboard Solution

I followed Alan D. Moore's step-by-step guide to have my Raspberry Pi running in kiosk mode. I did my own configuration as I needed it to run on a touchscreen with no physical keyboard and mouse. Here's how my ~/.xinitrc file looks. xset s off xset…
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Why are my iOS events firing in the wrong order?

I'm working an iPhone app called RealBaseball. If you're familiar with RealSoccer, it's pretty similar. It will allow you to play baseball with your iPhone with friends around the world. When you hit the iPhone screen with your conductive bat, it…
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How to choose different colors from ColorPicker and apply it to a text or different shapes in the same screen in Android?

If user selects any color from colorpicker then should be able to apply it to a text or different shapes in a same activity or screen in Android. In my screen, shapes and color picker is there. By using onTouch event, I could be able to draw…
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jQuery Mobile vClick issue with input buttons

My understanding thus far has been that jQuery mobile provides a set of "v" events that mask the difference between touch screen devices and mouse driven devices - i.e. one can pretty much use "v" events equivalents of the traditional event. For…
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opening different URLs depending on device with one link

sorry if this is a bit on the easy side, but I haven't found an answer online (yet)... I'd like to have one link that points to two different URLs, depending on the device accessing the site. So, for example I click a link and if I'm on anything…
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Touchscreen not working in android on beagleboard xM

I have a custom Android (2.3) running on a Beagleboard xM. Currently we are trying to replace a small resistive touchscreen with a bigger, capacitive one. However we can't seem to get the touch working with our android. (The resistive always worked…
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touch screen programming issue

Suppose I have a touch screen which supports single finger touch, is it very hard to use software based solution (e.g. programming to detect multi-finger touch and movement) to make the touch screen support multi-touch? Just like I bought a cheap…
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