front panel touchscreen

[davidecotz]

Hi all!

I'm new to developing complex applciation in labview and i want to ask if a normal front panel can be used by a touchscreen monitor o I need to develop a proper code to achive this funcioton.

I've seen that there's a toolkit for this (Touchscreen Tookit) but i'm not sure hot to use it.

Thanks in adivice!

[Sam_Sharp]

I'm assuming you're developing for a Windows PC/Tablet with a touchscreen?

It depends on your application. Most touchscreens just behave like a mouse so tapping on the screen is a left-click, tap-and-hold is usually a right click. Making it work could be as simple as just making sure that you have a simple user interface and you make the buttons much larger and space them out.

If you need to do complex data / text entry then it gets a bit more difficult as you'd need to either use the windows onscreen keyboard, or write your own data entry in LabVIEW (or find an example someone has already done).

From the looks of it, that toolkit allows you to support gestures/multi-touch as well as simple access to onboard sensors.

[davidecotz]

Ok, as i can understand a normal front panel can theoretically used with a touchscreen (for example an indutrial PC with Windows 7 and a touchscreen screen).

The only problem could be windows setup to recognize a right click or left click on a finger press right?

For multy touch things i need to use a proper toolkit.

My application just need to press normal boolean button and plot some waveform.

[Sam_Sharp · Accepted solution]

If you can use the PC with the touchscreen (e.g. in windows to open applications), then you don't need to do anything special for it to work in LabVIEW.

[davidecotz]

thankyou! 😄

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