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Touch Screen programming?

Author
11 Apr 2006 3:39 PM
Elioth
I want to make a program which it work with a touch screen, I need to know if
I need any special control or programming in vb.net to do, to the program
work with the touch screen?

Thanks for help.

Author
11 Apr 2006 3:45 PM
Ken Halter
"Elioth" <Eli***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I want to make a program which it work with a touch screen, I need to know
>if
> I need any special control or programming in vb.net to do, to the program
> work with the touch screen?
>
> Thanks for help.

A touch screen is simply a mouse. All you need to do is make sure any
buttons, etc, are large enough to hit with a finger. The OS has
functionality built in to support larger menus, scrollbars, caption buttons,
etc (just use the Display Applet to set those) so don't get carried away
re-inventing the wheel (I have a patent on that). Once you're done, you can
have a bit of fun with the users (I do <g>) by asking them to right-click
the touch-screen and select 'Properties'... you can't imagine the number of
people that actually try that <g>

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Author
11 Apr 2006 4:04 PM
Cor Ligthert [MVP]
Ken,

> don't get carried away re-inventing the wheel (I have a patent on that).

I wished I could reply to you this in Dutch.

Waarom gebruik je geen *Net* te ronde wielen in plaats van VoorBije 6
kantige.

(Why are you not using nice round wheels instead of those with 6 sides from
the past)

I could not resist and don't see this in any way serious.

Cor
Author
11 Apr 2006 7:12 PM
Ken Halter
"Cor Ligthert [MVP]" <notmyfirstn***@planet.nl> wrote in message
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> Ken,
>
>> don't get carried away re-inventing the wheel (I have a patent on that).
>
> I wished I could reply to you this in Dutch.
>
> Waarom gebruik je geen *Net* te ronde wielen in plaats van VoorBije 6
> kantige.
>
> (Why are you not using nice round wheels instead of those with 6 sides
> from the past)

LOL... I truly hate when I find that I've spent time doing something that's
already built in <g>

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> I could not resist and don't see this in any way serious.
>
> Cor



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