Recognize touch as MouseDown event

Question

I am building a puzzle game in C#, winforms for a touch screen.

I am able to handle touch events on mouse handlers, in fact, i did nothing at all, but it already rec

Answer 1

One suggestion that sounds as a plausible solution is to override WndProc and search for a WM_TOUCH event. More details here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/15785333/3330348

Answer 2

To perform touch operations correct you should not use the mouse handler event's just because touch and use the mouse handler it is going through a library built to handle touch as mouse and not what you should be using for a game your able to register your application to handle touch events using the methods from user32.dll, below is an example of how to implement touch handling in your application.

    [DllImport("user32.DLL")]
    public static extern bool RegisterTouchWindow(IntPtr hwnd, int ulFlags);

    [DllImport("user32.DLL")]
    public static extern bool UnregisterTouchWindow(IntPtr hwnd);


    public Form1()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
        RegisterTouchWindow(button1.Handle, 0);
    }

    private void Form1_FormClosing(object sender, FormClosingEventArgs e)
    {
        UnregisterTouchWindow(button1.Handle);
    }

Answer 3

This can be a problem with your touch screen's driver. Many touch screen drivers have utilities that set how a touch is interpretted and sent to windows. Sometimes just updating the driver will work.

Answer 4

Thanks @PiotrWolkowski

You were correct about the way i should follow... Some other issues appear, but i solved the initial problem overriding the WndProc as showed in the following:

protected override void WndProc(ref Message m)
    {
        switch (m.Msg)
        {
            case Win32.WM_POINTERDOWN:
            case Win32.WM_POINTERUP:
            case Win32.WM_POINTERUPDATE:
            case Win32.WM_POINTERCAPTURECHANGED:
                break;

            default:
                base.WndProc(ref m);
                return;
        }
        int pointerID = Win32.GET_POINTER_ID(m.WParam);
        Win32.POINTER_INFO pi = new Win32.POINTER_INFO();
        if (!Win32.GetPointerInfo(pointerID, ref pi))
        {
            Win32.CheckLastError();
        }
        Point pt = PointToClient(pi.PtPixelLocation.ToPoint());
        MouseEventArgs me = new MouseEventArgs(System.Windows.Forms.MouseButtons.Left, 1, pt.X, pt.Y, 0);
        switch (m.Msg)
        {
            case Win32.WM_POINTERDOWN:
                    Console.WriteLine("TOCOU" + pt);
                    (Parent as Jogo).Form1_MouseDown((this as object), me);
                break;

            case Win32.WM_POINTERUP:
                    Console.WriteLine("LEVANTOU");
                    (Parent as Jogo).Form1_MouseUp((this as object), me);
                break;

            case Win32.WM_POINTERUPDATE:
                    //Console.WriteLine("UPDATE");
                    (Parent as Jogo).Form1_MouseMove((this as object), me);
                break;
        }
    }

It was supported by an "Win32.cs" that can be downloaded here:

https://gist.github.com/RSchwoerer/bc5c04899c0510aefca24f088a79cebf

Hope this is helpful for you;)