Ok, bit of a strange one but basically I'm looking for a piece of software that would allow me to use a touchscreen secondary display to select tools in my CAD program without affecting the pointer. I'm looking for something that can interpret touches in certain areas of the screed directly as keypresses, ideally something that allows for macros. I've had a quick look around the intertubes and found 101 programs for emulating a keyboard with a mouse (virtual keyboards) but none that do what I'm looking for so I wondered whether anybody else had come across one? Moriquendi
Sounds like you are going to need to have a custom front end written to give you the buttons you want, not unlike an ATM screen.
I've got a nasty feeling that it's going to have to be a little deeper than. Every touchscreen that I've come into contact with uses a controller that reports itself to the computer as a mouse whether it's attached by serial, PS2 or USB. The only way I can think of doing it without digging deep into the bowels of windows is to make a controller that accepts input from the touchscreen (probably via serial), works out which button it corresponds to and then sends it to the computer as a sequence of keypresses. Moriquendi
