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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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Optimizing a web interface for touchscreens (dealing with unwanted mouse-drag, etc)

I'm building a small web-based kiosk interface to be used on a 7-inch touchscreen. I won't get into detail about the system itself, but the browser on the touchscreen is a permanently full-screened Firefox running on Ubuntu. After I got the…
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Screen sensitivity across Android devices

I have encountered a really weird scenario during my tests and maybe you can light me. Scenario: The application consists in a Surfaceview in which I handle the touch event. I have a image on the screen and the user put's his finger on it and then…
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Connecting Android studio to raspberry pi +touch screen dispaly(Android things)

I am doing a project using Android things,I have downloaded image and flashed in memory card ,n I got Android things os screen.... Until this is all fine.. Now I want develop app..how to connect to raspberry pi from Android studio so that the device…
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Are CSS popups dying with touch-screens becoming more proliferate?

I'm designing a site (a customer portal) that will probably be used with mobile/touchscreen devices at some point in the future. In the past I've used CSS code like this: div.Info { display: inline; position: relative; text-decoration:…
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touch screen device, no scrolling possible with overflow:auto & fixed height

I've built a theme, making it to use 100% height of the page. The basic of the layout is the following: div#container contains 3 divs, header, footer, content. All positioned absolute to #container, 14% height header, 6% height footer, the rest is…
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Making Touchscreen Instantly Responsive for Html Viewer and Stop Android Vibrate on Touchscreen

Summary: I want to stop the buzz when I touch my webview in an android app. I want there to be no delay when I touch the webview for the first time and make touch as responsive as possible. Edit: I have managed to get rid of the buzz. It is called…
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Psychopy on Surface Pro 6: Can touchscreen be used to press AND hold a button similar to a mouse click?

SPECS: Using PsychoPy v1.90.3 Window 10 Pro 6 running Windows 10 BACKGROUND: I am programming a touchscreen task to use with children (reference image linked below). In the task, children need to press and hold the red 'home' button for 1.5…
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How to rotate Android touch-screen via hid-usb driver

I'm building Android 5.1 with kernel version 3.10.52. Everything goes fine before I attached a hdmi touch screen (http://www.waveshare.net/wiki/7inch_HDMI_LCD_(B)). HDMI output was fine and it's landscape, and touch function was working. But the…
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Can detect touch click on a MFC Windows application?

I need to understand if there is a way to detect if a "click" is coming from a touchscreen monitor or is a "Mouse click" coming from a normal display, with a Windows application made with C++/MFC. Let me explain a little bit better. Suppose to have…
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Touch events on canvas in javascript have wrong coordinates

I have an html5 canvas game for desktop browsers that uses the keyboard, and I'm trying to create compatibility for smartphones by adding touch-screen controls. The current issue is that the events for touch input are returning X and Y coordinates…
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Guidelines for touchscreens systems

Have you ever heard about an accepted paradigm about how to design those kind of systems? Im not talking about iphones but photo-kiosk or manufacturing systems
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Prevent JavaFX TabPane from switching tabs on swipe

When I use a TabPane with a touchscreen, the tabs are switching when I swipe left or right, which I want to prevent. I fixed part of the problem by consuming the swipe events on the child panes, but the tabs still switch when I swipe in the area…
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Touchscreen Windows 7 WPF

I have an app which I need to make accessible for Windows Touch. It is not a multi-touch application. I've looked at Microsoft's guidelines for touch applications which is interesting. There is one thing I am not clear on though, that is text…
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What is a good size for clickable area on mobile devices?

I am looking for some guidelines or suggestion, on what is a "good" size for clickable elements when developing for mobile devices?
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Slider for touchscreens

I have here such slider:https://jsfiddle.net/args91L4/ how do I get it to work on touch screens, more precisely what are the ways without third-party plugins on vanilla js or pure jquery? I thought to track mouse events like: .mousedown(); …
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