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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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Adobe AIR: touch screen doesn't trigger mouse down event correctly

i have designed a gaming kiosk app in as3 i am using it on a Sony vaio l pc (like hp's touchsmarts) in windows 7 the app doesn't need any multi-touch gestures (only single touch clicks and drags) so i am using mouse events everything is fine…
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WPF application loses touch capability

I am developing a WPF application (.NET Framework 4.5) and I have a strange behavior. The application is meant to run on a Windows 8.0 with a Elo Touch screen (elotouch.com). When running the application in Release mode, on the production machine,…
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how does detecting touch position on android screen work?

We can get the coordinates of the touch position on the screen using the following functions: public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event){ float x_forOnTouch = event.getX(); float y_forOnTouch = event.getY(); What exactly is being…
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Windows 8 Store applications as enterprise software

I'm writing a Windows 8 Store application but the application is for internal uses within my company. The application needs to run on 100+ tablets so the installation process needs to be easy. So, I've been using the Windows 8 Store template to…
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Enabeling touch events in Chrome from touch screen

I have a Ubuntu machine with a 24" touchscreen and it is working fine. I can move the mouse, do gestures with several touch points and such so the hardware is working fine. Now I wonder if it is possible to make a browser interpret the events as…
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How to test for touchscreen (not "touch capability")?

I'm developing a site that implements specific functionality for touch-enabled devices. I aim to target smartphones, tablets and in fact everything that uses a touchscreen as its primary input. To achieve this I'm using Modernizr's…
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How to handle ButtonField & BitmapField Click (Touch) events in Blackberry Storm?

I have created a ButtonField & a BitmapField like.. public class MyCanvas extends MainScreen implements FieldChangeListener { HorizontalFieldManager hfm; private Bitmap startBitmap; private BitmapField startBitmapField; private…
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Android USB touchscreen HID descriptors issue

I will try to describe my problem as clearly as possible. I am trying to get a touchscreen device working with Android. the device is a USB device and I have it working correctly in various OSs (Windows, Mac OS X, Ubuntu). In Android 4.0.4 I seem to…
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Is there a way to determine if the current screen supports touch?

Possible Duplicate: Is it possible to let my c# wpf program know if the user has a touchscreen or not? How can I tell if the device I'm working on has a touch screen? I'm thinking something like: SystemParameters.IsPenWindows
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functionality of touchscreens and user input

I am an amateur (desktop) programmer but I want to get into phones. I have some ideas for apps but the touchscreen and it's inputs confuse me.... I know that touchscreens can accept multiple points of touch. For instance zooming in you take two…
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libgdx touchup and touchdragged not being called, but touchdown is

I have an actor on a stage and though hit, and touchdown are being called, touchup and touchdragged aren't. Any ideas on what is wrong? ............ stage = new Stage(0, 0, true); Gdx.input.setInputProcessor(stage); ........... @Override …
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jQuery listener for horizontal swipe on touchscreen?

How can I detect a left to right swipe on touch screens with jQuery?
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Heat-sensitive touch compatibility issues

After releasing my product, I've started getting complaints that a certain screen was not working for some phones. After a lot of research and a lot of attempts to fix this issue, I found out that phones that are controlled by heat instead of…
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Rich User Interface on Embedded Linux Device

I'm designing a user interface for a large touchscreen device running Linux. What would be the best toolkit/developer kit/SDK to use? The only requirement is that its able to run on a semi-low performace device, and that there is a Linux…
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Touch screen calibration values, How is it done in Android/Kernel?

I'm porting Android Gingerbread to my custom board (with a Samsung S5PV210 processor). I have a touch screen with an ESC7000 chip. I found a driver in /kernel/drivers/input/touchscreen/usbtouchscreen.c . It almost worked but the bit range, order and…
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