any touch screen experience there?

[Peter L. Peres]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Zbigniew Koziol wrote:

> Finger is like mouse pointer. Though it may be possible to put two fingers at 
> once. And that is indeed the level of "driver-dependant". But otherwise I see 
> no difference with usual screen.

The ones I know specifically reject any input that can be construed as 
not being 'one finger touch'.

> I know at the moment that there are touch screens based on capacitance and 
> resistnace network. The later seem to perform better in changing environement 
> conditions. There is yet probably very few companies that produce touch 
> screens. Relatively few that do them for Toronto, etc. This is potentially a 
> big market, but Windows only seems to be used there, for now.

Not true, you will often see touchscreen applications in atm machines 
and in restaurant/food idustry terminals. It is rumored that Mac*** 
terminals use some kind of BSD OS, and most restaurant style 
touchscreens have been running since DOS days.

Peter
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