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[volvogangster]

Hello,

Maybe this is not the good place for this question, but I think this is a very intereseting question.

Maybe it is a stupid question but,

OK here we go:

Windows 7 is coming and the RC is released, but in windows 7, you can work with a touch screen. You have to buy a special screen that supports touch.

Here comes my question:

What kind of effect does this fact have in the programming.

You don't have an event Button1_touch are something, but I think it is still button1_click then, but my second question is:

I saw people who were using windows 7 and I saw them turning a picture with
their finger.
If we program a pictureviewer or something in that way, how do we program that if someone moves his finger and then the picture is turning, you know?

And my third question is:

Does programming become more difficult with the touch, because you don't have an event button1_mousemove for example, because with touch, there is no cursor!

Ok, I think that you have an answer for me, because you are maybe more proffessional than I am.

Thanks

[WingedPanther]

Really, it's just a few more API functions you can use. I don't think it's that big a deal.

[volvogangster]

Ok, thanks, no effect,

But i'm still not looking to the future, because I don't like touch screen, a mouse is better and it is a tradition of windows, so why change that? Ok, I know that there is a competition with apple, but I think if windows keeps the mouse, everyone will know that windows is windows.
It's like mothers always say: Do not blaze, keep yourself.
But my english isn't very good, so I hope you understand the message.

Thanks

[Termana]

Windows 7 isn't abandoning the mouse and keyboard in favor of touch screens. Rather, it is just providing more functionality to touch screen users.

[WingedPanther]

Touch screens have been around for a long time. They were just a mouse with a funny driver/interface. There is very little difference between a touch screen and the touchpads artists have been using for around 2 decades!

[barkermn01]

i agree touch screen is just going to be an onclick even,

If you have ever seen a smart board they are touch screens that use a projector and they don't need any special coding i don't even think its going to be more in the SDK for it most of it is just going to be in the windows core so that it has more built in drivers for touch screen

[sindy55]

I think no big effect.