touchscreen

CSS dropdowns on touch-based clients. Are pure CSS dropdowns going to become extinct?

My company is starting to move toward adding the iPad as a browser i have to test my work on. This got me thinking... Since touch-based clients don't have a :hover state are pure CSS dropdowns going to go away? Then i thought even if you add some javascript to make the menus popup on click... What happens when the menu item (that expa...

Integrating virtual keyboard on a HP TouchSmart with an Adobe AIR app

Hi, Does anyone know if it's possible to integrate the ToushSmart's virtual keyboard with an Adobe AIR application? In most programs (Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc), when a user touches a text field a little keyboard icon automatically pops up which, when pressed, will bring up the virtual keyboard. However, this doesn't happen when ...

Android TouchEvent in ListActivity..!!

Hi All, I have created a list activity where i have placed some items and i am using OnListItemClick to get the desired actions through D-pad and KeyLeft and KeyRight Buttons, In Emulator TouchEvent is not working , I want to know whether it works in real Handsets??? How can i enable the TOuchEvent also, Can anyone please help me out ...

Closing Windows Forms on a Touchscreen

Our clients have fat fingers, and so do we. We take touchscreen netbooks apart to insert them into our custom hardware, and I write a software interface that shows up on the touchscreen. The problem is that it has about a 3/4" bezel over the screen, which means hitting that little red "X" becomes a challenge, especially considering reduc...

Get the co-ordinates of a touch event on Android

Hi, I'm new to Android, I've followed the hello world tutorial through and have a basic idea of what's going on. I'm particularly interested in the touch screen of my T-Mobile Pulse so just to get me started I want to be able to write the co-ordinates of a tocuh event on the screen, so say the user touched the co-ordinate 5,2 - a textvi...

Making interactive touch objects on Android

I've never built a game before, and I've not programmed for Android before but am looking to do so over the summer by building a game. What type of object do I use for a shape that I want the user to be able to drag around the screen for instance using touch gestures? How do I tie together the MotionEvent, View and Graphics2D to make o...

Windows Phone 7 emulator with a touchscreen

I'm thinking about getting a small touchscreen to work with the Windows Phone 7 emulator... but will the developers tools support multi-touch from a touchscreen? I've only seen it with single mouse clicks so far... ...

How can I make a jQuery UI 'draggable()' div draggable for touchscreen?

I have a jQuery UI draggable() that works in Firefox and Chrome. The user interface concept is basically click to create a "post-it" type item. Basically, I click or tap on div#everything (100% high and wide) that listens for clicks, and an input textarea displays. You add text, and then when you're done it saves it. You can drag this e...

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 something wrong? public MainWindow() { InitializeComponent(); WC_Rectangle...

What's the latest in touch screen programming?

I want to code some applications to use touch screen gestures. What is the latest technology available? What functionalities to APIs provide? Is it just the casual select and click functionality or are advanced gestures are also exposed through the API? Is it possible to extend the APIs to code my own gestures. I can't arrange a touch...

Anything faster than a UIButton?

Hi, I'm writing an iPhone app which needs an extremely rapid response for a touch event. Is there any object that will provide a faster response than the UIControlEventTouchDown result of a UIButton loaded from a nib? I'm open to any resources that don't require extensive digging around or reverse engineering. Thanks in advance! Luke ...

How do I tell whether a browser is on a touchscreen device with JavaScript?

I know this is a bit of perennial question, but here goes: I want to know whether the device my site is being accessed with is a touchscreen. That means phones and iPads, of course, which are individually detectable, but also other touchscreens that may well be running flavors of Windows. Any chance of determining the presence or absence...

Possible to simulate a keyboard shortcut being pressed by clicking on link using JavaScript?

Hi, I'm creating a touch application in the "Itunes LP" format which uses html, css and javascript within Itunes to create a "digital LP". The application will have several LP's to explore through a touchscreen. In fullscreen mode (within Itunes and the LP) you can press the "esc key" to exit the LP and enter "coverflow view" where yo...

Microsoft Based Touch/Stylus Input

Disclaimer:It's my first time developing an app that will be on a tablet style pc. The app needs to allow a user to write notes with either a tablet pen or by touch. This must be a .net app and may be on either Windows XP and/or Windows 7. I am mainly tasked with capturing written notes from the user interface, but I am sure I will be ...

Window that is supposed to be fullscreen in WPF touchscreen application is moving when inner listbox is scrolled.

I am writing a GUI application to run on a touchscreen device using VB.NET and WPF--it must be full screen at all times, like a kiosk app; the window must not be able to resize or move in any way. The window contains a ListBox that users can currently scroll through by dragging across the list. The problem I'm seeing is that when the us...

On Screen (touchscreen) Web Keyboard

Hi, 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 would like to replicate the experience of typing on a mobile browser, but in a normal br...

Touchscreen in CE5 blocking data traffic from peripheral

Hi! 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 application crashes. So it seems like the touchscreen is blocking it. As a quick fix we woul...

Touching both a MapView and a Button on Android

Hey there!! I created a MapActivity that contains a MapView and a Button on the top of the MapView. Like this: I would like that the user touch a point of the mapView with a finger and then touch the button "Add Place" with another finger (the MapView is still pushed by the first finger). The problem is when the first finger touch ...

IPhone SDK: detect which touch came first on a 2 touch max application

Coding inside the function -(void) ccTouchMoved:(UITouch *)touch withEvent:(UIEvent *)event receiving 2 touches in the "event" variable, how can one detect which touch has lived longer? i know i could use global variables and in the touchbegin just update these variables, but I rather do it the better way, if there is any. ...

HTML5 Drag and Drop API on Touch Screen Devices

I was just wondering if the HTML5 API for Drag and Drop included support for touch screen displays. I was thinking of iPhone, but I know this isn't supported yet. I was wondering if that is just catching up on the part of Apple, to support HTML5 drag and drop on Safari mobile, but I also was thinking maybe the HTML5 API wasn't powerful...