Making .Net application for Touch Screen

Making .Net application for Touch Screen

• sdknewbie

  I'm curious as to who makes the touch screens and do they get there visual data thru the USB cable or would these replace the monitor and have video in and a USB connection.
  

• stormtreader

  There's no difference from an actual application from a touch screen application. The application usually "don't know" that a touch screen is used for input, it's just like using a mouse!

  Just keep in mind that user will touch the screen with their finger, so all the UI must big enough for that.

  I've done a ASP.net application which is been use with a touch screen, and the touch screen emulate an mouse pointer, so I really don't think your problem is about what language use, but which touch screen.

  
  
  

• Carl Daniel

  This probably isn't the best forum to ask this question in. I'm not sure if ASP.NET would be the best approach--are you planning on making a webpage If you just want it to be a webpage, I'm pretty sure you just need to keep in mind that a touch screen will be the interface. I'm pretty sure that touch screens are just another input device and are treated as a mouse--meaning that where a person's finger is represents the pointer, and a press is a click. I have no experience writing such applications though, so somebody should correct me if I'm wrong.

  
  
  

• clint 2

  I did touch screen for a retailer in 2002 in VB6 and we also did a 'proof of concept' limited feature version in .Net. So far as the programming goes it looks just like mouse or keyboard event with the video, keyboard and mouse drivers we used. Nothing special was required in code to deal with it.

  
  
  

• dwitt

  Yes, touch screen UI control events are analogous to mouse UI control events. The last time I was involved in a medical touch screen project, for a company whose name starts with K, HTML and RDO were employed; keep in mind this was 2001 or 2002, a Windows Forms app may be a better answer than a web-based app these days, depending on your deployment configuration.
  

• h1

  vinobaje wrote:

  i want to make a touch screen application any body can help me pleaseeeeee how to make the touch screen application which languege can use please help me

  you can use any .Net language, there's no limitation as far as I'm aware. you can use C# and VB.NET no question, and I've never heard of a limitation on any other .Net language in regards to making touchscreen applications -- the programming's no different, you place controls on your form and capture events as you normally would, the only difference is that the user is creating the events with a stylus touch, a finger touch or some other mechanism unique to the device, like a joystick click, but the events generated are the same as the usual mouse click events you'd get in a "normal" UI.

  
  

• shekhar saran

  There is no different between a Touch Screen application and desktop application. I m working with the touchscreen monitors,integrated pcs. I think you got the answer, rules are simple. Big buttons, big fonts, a virtual keyboard. I think u must study touch screens. If you know touch screens work principle you may understand what i mean.
  

• OmegaMan

  The main things you need for a touch-screen are:

  • big buttons - big enough for a thumb to easily hit. When resolved on the physical screen, this would be at least roughly 1cm x 1cm.
  • big fonts that look reasonable next to the big buttons
  • a virtual keyboard (with those big buttons) if you need data-entry.

  HTH.

  
  
  

• samtylr

  i want to make a touch screen application
  any body can help me pleaseeeeee
  
  how to make the touch screen application
  which languege can use
  
  please help me
  
  
  
  

• fbdf

  Hi AndrewBadera

  How are you

  im making a web based application with MYSQL

  and using mysql odbc 3.51

  when i try to use LIKE cluse its geting error

  like this

  SELECT mysql.listingrecord.*
  FROM mysql.listingrecord
  WHERE (record LIKE + '%')

  please can u help me

  Thanks

  M.Vinoth
  
  

• James Alexander

  HI AndrewBadera

  thanks

  do u have any sample code

  if u have please help me

  
  
  
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