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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 both mouse and touch events on touch screens

I'm writing web application which should support both mouse and touch interactions. For testing I use touch screen device with Windows 7. I've tried to sniff touch events in latest Firefox and Chrome canary and got the following results: On touch…
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how to get smartphone like scrolling for a winforms touchscreen app ( scrolling panel )

After scouring the articles online I have come up with this design for a winforms based touchscreen app that needs smartphone like scrolling. The app itself will run on a tablet laptop or touchscreen desktop. I put everything I want to scroll on a…
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Redirecting / Remapping / Pre-filtering cursor input from touch screen

MY PROBLEM Okay, well the basic answer to this would be using the: Cursor.Clip = new Rectangle(x1, y1, x2, y2); But my problem is a bit more complicated. What I need it to do is correctly map itself to a specific windows bounds so that the touch…
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How to get Coordinates of Touchscreen Rawdata using Linux

We have a 3m microtouch display. It's connected to my Debian system via USB and recognized as human interface (hid). I am trying to access and push realtime information... if its getting touched I want to know where (x,y) and pipe it through netcat…
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Is Twitter Bootstrap suitable for touch screens?

I am considering using Twitter Bootstrap (TB) for a mobile web app. The next version of TB, version 3, claims to be "mobile-first". However, looking at the included Javascript files, I see almost exclusively "click" events, hardly any "touch" events…
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Is it possible to let my c# wpf program know if the user has a touchscreen or not?

I've got an login application that has a swipe system that people only can use when they have a touchscreen. They can login by swiping their personal pattern swipe code. Is it possible to check in C# or WPF if the user has a touchscreen? Even when…
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Remove the mouse over effect on a ListView in WPF

How can I get ride of the pale blue mouse over effect on my ListView? When I touch the screen a pale blue selector appears and stays in the middle of the screen as I scroll up and down (but the selected item which is highlighted in a darker blue…
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Show & hiding the Windows 8 on screen keyboard from WPF

I'm writing a WPF application for a Windows 8 tablet. It's full windows 8 and not ARM/RT. When the user enters a textbox I show the on screen keyboard using the following code: System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(@"C:\Program Files\Common…
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WPF Scrollviewer on touch screen tablet

I'm writing a WPF application that is going to run on a full windows 8 touchscreen tablet (not RT). However touch scrolling doesn't seem to be working. So I'm wondering if it's something I'm doing wrong or if it's even possible? So, I have a WPF…
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Things to consider when writing for touch screen?

I'm starting a new project which involves developing an interface for a machine that measures wedge and roundness of lenses and stores the information in a database and reports on it. There's a decent chance we're going to be putting a touch screen…
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Android waveshare touchscreen

Im trying to install an android touchscreen driver ... i have a raspberry pi 3 and i installed emteria android it ... i bought a waveshare touchscreen https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/10.1inch_HDMI_LCD#Method_1._Driver_installation. I was able to fix…
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Using iPad with 11 Fingers... Extend Android's limit in Code

Bizarrely, the iPad can handle up to 11 points of contact on the touch screen and interpret them successfully, leading to some interesting games. Reference: http://www.liewcf.com/ipad-tablet-multitouch-fingers-5202/ Android devices don't have a…
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How to make Java JButton visually depress with touch screen?

I've got a simple Swing GUI with JButtons being run on a Surface tablet with a touchscreen. The buttons have ActionListeners. When these buttons are clicked from a mouse they visually depress correctly. However when they are tapped on the…
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how to calculate a negative acceleration?

I'm implementing the scrolling behaviour of a touch screen UI but I'm too tired in the moment to wrap my mind around some supposedly trivial piece of math: y (distance/velocity) |******** | ****** | **** | *** | …
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Cross-compiling ocaml apps for ARM

I'm cross-compiling a touchscreen driver, which comes with an ocaml calibration application. I'm trying to compile the driver and the application for ARM, in particular, the Beagleboard, running Angström. It goes like this: ^_^[raziel@Bebop…
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