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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Stop Horizontal Scrolling In Touch Screen Using JavaScript?

I am working on a project that need to scroll using button and not using touch scrolling. For this purpose, I have used a pure JavaScript code that I am sharing below, but this is stopping all the scrolling even Up / Down too. I just want to stop…
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Pinch to zoom broken with google maps on chrome pixel

Is there anyway to get pinch zoom gestures working when using google maps as a third-party tool? Touch gestures work on maps.google.com, but not when included as a plugin like the simple map example.
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WPF - Debugging touch event without touchscreen?

I wondering is It the way to debug/test touch event in WPF without touchscreen? I have VS2013 and on Windows Stre App i can run a simulator or connect to remote device to test touch but i cant find this options in WPF aplication.
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QDialog popping up another QDialog

I have a subclassed QDialog containing a bunch of subclassed QSpinBox's. When clicking a spinbox, a keypad (another QDialog) where you can use pushbuttons to enter digits. Both QDialog's are activated by calling QDialog::exec(); However, when…
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No touches after adding touchscreen driver to CE 6 in platform builder

I have added a TSHARC touchscreen driver to my Windows CE project, but the touch does not work. The dll is there, as is the touchscreen calibration executable. I have no visibility into which drivers are loaded and when. Any guidance would be…
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Mouse over effect on touchscreen

Obviously you dont have a mouse over effect on a touchscreen, but I would like some effect, maybe onclick? Does anybody have any suggestions?
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Full screen WPF App To act as operating system

I realize this might sound a little dubious but I assure you it isn't. I have a client who wants a win 8 pro touch screen app. One of the requirements is that the app is the only thing on the device the user may use. So my question is, can I make it…
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How to hide mouse pointer on startup?

I have an embedded touch screen running linux and my app is Qt/C++. I start the app with the function main which looks like this: #include #include #include int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { // Create the…
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NFC handover to Bluetooth or WiFi for data transfer

I'm currently working on a project for an interactive visitor centre in Laguna Beach, CA. There are many touchscreen devices around the space, which we are developing some cool software for, however one of the client requests is to allow visitors to…
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Making select control friendly on touch screens including Windows 8

I have a web page that I am trying to make "friendly" to touch devices. With the proliferation of devices with medium sized screens (small tables, large phones) my approach is to make one responsive layout with CSS and javascript tweaks where…
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Linux - How to program for a touchscreen outside of X Windows

I have a small TFT with touch control connected to a Raspberry Pi. The touchscreen works well within X windows. I would like to be able to use the touchscreen outside of X windows. Something simple, like two buttons on the screen. I have experience…
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Draggable/Zoomable Image in HTML Canvas for mobile touch browsers (Android/iOS)

I'm working on a project to display some CAD drawings in a browser. The website works perfectly for desktop browsers, now I need to enable mobile use (for tablets). My drawing is created from data by canvas drawing calls (context.lineTo, ...), I do…
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On-screen keyboard for touchscreen app

I am developing a kiosk-style application that is going to be used with a touchscreen. Are there any simple, well-written on-screen keyboards for Cocoa? Note that this is not for an iPhone app, but rather targetting OS X 10.5/10.6. Thanks.
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Disable horizontal scroll in touchscreen

First a little supporting information: Currently I am making touchscreen navigation, similar to the iOS facebook app. It requires one div to be slided away from the screen(almost completely). For this I am using jqueryUI draggable. My problem arises…
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capture movements or keystrokes of a game like (Angry Bird) using touch screen of an iphone

I basically need to find out if there is a way to capture movements or keystrokes of a game such as "Angry Birds" etc using the touch screen of an iPhone and save them to a file on the device. I'm sure these phones have security issues and don't…
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