Touchscreen support in XBMC - Control everything in GUI via one finger touch/click(s)

So long as your touchscreen works as a normal HID and there are drivers for your selected OS it *should* work without any coding.

althekiller Wrote:So long as your touchscreen works as a normal HID and there are drivers for your selected OS it *should* work without any coding.

Providing you use a skin with decent mouse support

Hey guys, thanks for the prompt replies. A forum impressive as the system! If i were to use something like this then i suppose given the monitor conenction then i'd have to go linux/mac based vs. xbox based? Sorry for the real newby nature of my questioning! in ref to parris's comment then at the moment it's just a prototype with the touchscreen more 'proof of concept' than anything else, but thank you for that link as it'll come in handy down the road. i would presume that the software from someone like Elo would work well with Xbmc on pc/mac but really welcome any further input. Ta. Dan/Rielle.

IMHO, the only touchscreen/mouse feature currently missing in XBMC is double-tap (double-click) support to go back and to bring up the context-menu, (and the back feature could probably be archived via skinning alone).

Other than that a few skins like "Project Mayhem III" and "PM3.HD" are already very mouse friendly which translate into being touchscreen friendly, (again, with the exception where the right mouse-button is required as a touchscreen essentially functions like a one button mouse, and that mouse-button specifically being only the left mouse-button).

For more forum thread about touchscreens see: http://forum.xbmc.org/tags.php?tag=touchscreen

rielle Wrote:Hey guys, thanks for the prompt replies. A forum impressive as the system! If i were to use something like this then i suppose given the monitor conenction then i'd have to go linux/mac based vs. xbox based?

Yes, it might work or it might not work as the Xbox has limited HID mouse support, see: http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Xbox_USB_Key...se_Support

jmarshall Wrote:When I get a single user actually using a touchscreen and requesting such a feature, then I will consider it.

One user => http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=38478

One plus touchscreen user here (or will be when i get my arcade bartop built)

My intention was to add hidden (or visible) buttons to do things not possible in the skin, context-menus would be an issue.

15" Elo touchscreen used, go for around $100 on eBay. that's what I bought, small, but good enough.

Nuka1195 Wrote:context menus would be an issue.

Yeah the context-menu is the biggest issue, ...back button could be done via skinning by adding a "Back" button in each view (though IMHO it would we great if also a double-click in an area without buttons always meant back, not as intuitive as a "Back" button in each view but easy to learn once you understood the concept).

Whoa, what other program has ever had double-click = back? We shouldn't be trying to train users to use new concepts just because we've run out of buttons. We should be looking at existing media players and seeing how they do it so a user can easily switch to us without having to learn a new song and dance.

Double-click to pop-up the Context-Menu is not a stretch though, is it?

Can you name a commonly used program that uses such a behavior? IMO there are a lot of our keyboard shortcuts that make no sense. Two that come to mind immediately:
If you'd like to quit, press 's'?
If you'd like to stop a video, press 'x'?

Really, where's the wife factor?