Touch screen and AHK – an old issue ...

[newbieforever]

I know, this is an old issue.

Maybe this script demonstrates the main problem (i.e. the difference between click and touch):

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LButton::
t := A_TickCount
KeyWait LButton
t := A_TickCount - t
ToolTip Time = %t%
Return

First difference:
I suppose, Time is the between down and up of the click or touch.
On my computer Time for the left mouse click is typically > 170 ms, for the touch always 0.

Second difference:
The touch is not blocked by the above hotkey, it has its normal effect, in contrary to the click.
Which seems to be the main problem for AHK ...

Any new ideas?

[mikeyww]

Perhaps you have already seen these posts, but just in case....

viewtopic.php?t=60790

viewtopic.php?t=22450

I don't know if this solves it, but they could be leads.

[newbieforever]

As far as I can see, no one here has yet found a solution to customize the script above to block the touch (as is the case with the click).
But without such a solution no touch remapping is possible ...

[newbieforever]

As far as I can see, no one here has yet found a solution to customize the script above to block the touch (as is the case with the click).
But without such a solution no touch remapping is possible ...

And there are already so many touchscreen computers (or their users) that there would be a real need for a solution. Couldn't an AHK professional devote himself to this problem?

[mikeyww]

Yes. I think that's you. Please post the solution when ready!

[newbieforever]

Yes. I think that's you. Please post the solution when ready!

That makes me laugh!

But: A tip for real professionals, maybe they grab the ambition:
The solution could lie in it:
MSLLHOOKSTRUCT & dwExtraInfo
dwExtraInfo should provide info about touch events.

; MSLLHOOKSTRUCT dwExtraInfo autohotkey
; MSLLHOOKSTRUCT dwExtraInfo !"touch event"
; https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62180923/capture-touch-input-on-the-screen-in-windows-device
; viewtopic.php?t=9247
; viewtopic.php?t=6392
; https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45473673/how-to-distinguish-touch-vs-mouse-event-from-setwindowshookex-in-c-sharp
; https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50407901/capturing-touch-events-with-lowlevelmouseproc-does-not-work-for-all-applications

So everything would be contained here somewhere, you would only have to tinker it together!