It's my basic understanding that most 'touch-screen' monitors have 2 connections: 1 for the usual monitor port and another for either the mouse port or a serial port. Then you need to have drivers for the monitor (usually included or downloaded). After that, I think it pretty much works like using a mouse. But some things may depend on the monitor.
In many ways it's like using the screen as a touch pad. But from what I've heard the resolution of movement (dragging) isn't quite as good as with a touch pad.
I was thinking about getting one and playing with it. The downside is it's a monochrome, but the upside is it'd be very cheap (maybe free...).
HTH, -Charlie
>How did you make the touchscreen itself work? > >I need to put together a touchscreen application but don't know where to >begin. > >Greg
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