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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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Reacting to double tap on a touch screen

I develop a WPF application that will target a Windows 7 machine. The machine is equipped with a touch screen monitor. Since there are severe restrictions for space, the user does not want to use a mouse so the entire GUI will be controlled via taps…
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xorg touchscreen: absolute position ignored

I'm trying to use an EETI EXC7200 touchscreen with X (1.14.7). The touchscreen is recognized and events are processed. TS sends absolute coordinates and evdev driver is used (mode absolute). However when I move to the edge of the screen (and X or Y…
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Touchscreen in CE5 blocking data traffic from peripheral

We are developing a platform with Windows CE 5 (soon to be upgraded to 6) in .Net CF 2 C#. What we have recently discovered is that if we are touching the touchscreen while using our peripheral, the peripheral data trafic times out and our…
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On Screen (touchscreen) Web Keyboard

I have a webapp that needs to have the option to be used in a kiosk-style, touchscreen-only environment. Am wondering whether there are any good browser-based keyboards we could use. Probably something javascript or jquery based. Basically we…
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How to tell touchscreens from regular ones?

In case multiple screens are connected to a computer, I'd like to show an application on a touchscreen. By iterating over System.Windows.Forms.Screen.AllScreens I can get the WorkingArea in order to move the window. However, Screen doesn't provide a…
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HID Digitizer Descriptor doesn't perform well with landscape orientation

Use-case Implement a HID "Touch Screen" for a SmartPhone device using USB "Touch Screen" should operate well in either landscape or portrait orientation Dev Environment Samsung Galaxy 5 Android 5 Problem description When the phone is in the…
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Touchscreen using sound input?

i don't really know if it is actually possible, but i believe that it can be made. How possible is it to make a program that recognizes different sound bouncing from the screen and turn it into a position that will obviously be later fed to the…
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Trying to implement scrolling inertia with jQuery

I'm trying to add some iPhone style scrolling inertia to a web page that will only be viewed on the iPad. I have the scrolling working in one direction (scrollLeft), but it doesn't work in the other direction. It's a pretty simple function: function…
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WPF touchScreen ListBox control design

I need to allow the user to select the item in a listbox on mouse down and when the user drags up or down i need to scroll the items in listbox, since the user interacts with the listbox touch touch screen, i want some thing like the ipod…
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Elo touch monitor not correctly recognised in android 4.3

I have an Elo touch monitor. When I connect it to a machine running android-x86 (4.4) via hdmi+usb, the monitor just works, both display and touch input. However when I connect it to a board (I've tried with both the Udoo Quard board and the Utilite…
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UISegmentedControl tint color on touch

I have a UISegmentedControl in my app (see code below) : // --------------- SETTING NAVIGATION BAR RIGHT BUTTONS NSArray *segControlItems = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:[UIImage imageNamed:@"up.png"],[UIImage imageNamed:@"down.png"], nil]; segControl =…
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Change dropdown size for .NET touchscreen application

I'm trying to create a .NET touchscreen application. I would like to be able to create a large dropdown. By increasing the font size, the button stays the same width but increases in height, meaning it's long and thin. Is there a way to 'scale up'…
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Detect if touch device

I'm writing a MIDlet using the Kuix UI toolkit, and I want to make changes to the toolkit depending on whether the current device is a touch screen device. (These changes include making buttons bigger, for easier tapping.) Is there a way to detect…
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Adding an additional click event to every element (JavaScript / jQuery)

I'm developing a touchscreen application that, aside from everything else, records the amount of times the screen is used so that the user can be reminded to clean the screen after a predefined number of clicks. I've got the click functions written…
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Touchscreen calibration on android

I've an android TV box (jellybean) to which I have connected a 17'' eGalaxy touchscreen. It moves the pointer but only with in a small are. I've created the necessary idc file but don't know the right configuration to put in it.
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