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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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Adjust touch input sample rate on Android

On Android, is there a way of adjusting the touch input sample rate?
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JetBrains IDEs scrolling on touchscreen

I'm having a problem scrolling in all the JetBrains IDEs (PyCharm, PhpStorm) using touch screen. I have a Dell XPS 15 with a touchscreen. When I try to scroll it just selects code. I have tried in regular Notepad and Notepad++ and there works as…
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WPF control does not capture the press and hold event (right click) when IsManipulationEnabled is set

I'm starting to make some tests with a touch screen and I've found that if a UIControl has the "IsManipulationEnabled" attribute set to true then the MouseRightClick Events fired by the press and hold gesture (WIN7) is not captured. Am I doing…
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How do I detect if a Windows device is touch-enabled

How do I detect if a device is touch-enabled in C# for a WinForms app (Not WPF). I found information on GetSystemMetrics. But I can't find how to use this in C#. I tried using System.Windows.Input.Tablet class. But it's not coming up in C#, even…
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jQuery - Updating a script to support touchscreens (scrollview)

I have been using the jQuery scroll view. The script does not appear to support touchscreens so I've spent the better part of a day trying to figure out how I might add touchscreen support to the script. I considered switching over to jQuery…
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Windows 7 touch screen - disabling multi-touch gesture not working

I have a touch screen computer with Windows 7 and I would like to disable the multi-touch gesture : But even if I disable it and apply the changes, when I reopen the window, the option is enabled again... Any idea where I can disable it for good ?…
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Determine if the device has touch screen or not

My app runs on standard phones but it also runs on Android players which I connect via HDMI to my TV and work with a mouse to navigate. Is there a way to programatically deterrmine whether the device has touch screen support so I can distinguish…
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Is it possible to simulate a click on the screen in Android?

Is it possible to simulate a "click" (touch screen) by coordinates or on a view element?
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Does Google Maps API V3 support touch event?

We are experiencing an issue related to GoogleMaps. The issue is mainly related to touch screens. We were trying to resolve the issue, but so far no success. We found in this article that the Google Maps API V3 does not supports touch event? Is…
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Internet Explorer + Windows8 Touchscreen issues

We are experiencing an issue related to Google Maps API V3. The issue is that while we drag the Marker the map also starts dragging. We are experiencing this issue ONLY on Touch Screens in Windows 8 Environment + Internet Explorer, its fine on…
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jQuery onMouseover/onClick for Touchscreen users (ie iPad)

So, I've made a collapsible menu into a web site based system which minimised the menu into 6 "jewel buttons" on the top right of the screen, each looks the same and contains a number, which is the number of alerts referring to items within the…
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Is there a 3rd party library for Android Pinch Zoom

Does anybody know whether there's a 3rd paty (or built in) library that helps in detecting and handling a pinch zoom event? Basically what I'm looking for is some class that takes coordinates from a touch event and returns whether its a pinch zoom…
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Best way to detect touchscreens (ipad, iphone, etc)?

I need to load some additional CSS to my page if its being viewed on a touch screen device like an ipad or iphone. Whats the easiest way to do this? Thanks
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how to detect if the screen is capacitive or resistive in an Android device?

I am developing an application that will behave slightly different depending on the type of screen. Is there any way to detect it?
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