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>>Hi,
>>
>>I am finishing a VFP app that I designed for a Windows tablet (I thought it would take me 3 days but it has been 3 weeks; the same story :).
>>Anyway, I ordered a Windows tablet with Windows 10 Home that is supposed to be delivered this Sunday.
>>
>>Do I need to do anything "special" to make the VFP app to work with touch screen?
>
>I have a few POS applications written by me for touch screens. There are a few problems you have to handle:
>
>-Different screen sizes. Put 240 to anchor is a simple solution but there's a font size problem too.
>-Create your own virtual keyboards. Microsoft's OSK will be like borrowed for your application.
>-Your own virtual keyboard won't work with numeric/date texboxes. I use string textboxes for numeric/date values too.
>
>My POS applications work with all Windows versions well. They also use these applications with new 50-100$ cheap Windows tablets too.
>
>In first I can remember these, you can ask me or I can send you screenshots for give opinion.
Hi Metin,
Thank you for your input. A couple of questions:
1. For which controls do you set Anchor to 240?
2. Why use textbox for numeric? The spinner does not work?
>>
>>I am finishing a VFP app that I designed for a Windows tablet (I thought it would take me 3 days but it has been 3 weeks; the same story :).
>>Anyway, I ordered a Windows tablet with Windows 10 Home that is supposed to be delivered this Sunday.
>>
>>Do I need to do anything "special" to make the VFP app to work with touch screen?
>
>I have a few POS applications written by me for touch screens. There are a few problems you have to handle:
>
>-Different screen sizes. Put 240 to anchor is a simple solution but there's a font size problem too.
>-Create your own virtual keyboards. Microsoft's OSK will be like borrowed for your application.
>-Your own virtual keyboard won't work with numeric/date texboxes. I use string textboxes for numeric/date values too.
>
>My POS applications work with all Windows versions well. They also use these applications with new 50-100$ cheap Windows tablets too.
>
>In first I can remember these, you can ask me or I can send you screenshots for give opinion.
Hi Metin,
Thank you for your input. A couple of questions:
1. For which controls do you set Anchor to 240?
2. Why use textbox for numeric? The spinner does not work?
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
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"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham