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Touch scroll/ swipe capability for WinForms application
I have an application that is used on a touch screen point-of-sale type PC running WinXP. Application has been written many years ago in VB6. Application has a grid-type data that is being scrolled by 2 buttons "Page UP" and "Page Down". Lately after seeing all the cool applications for phones that allow very easy swipe type scrolling, I set out to research if I can redo my application in .NET and give this app a more modern feel. I have tried a few libraries which didn't give me what I wanted. Is there any way to implement swipe scrolling in WinForms application, using 3rd party Grid and/or libraries or preferably using straight DataGridView ?
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Yes, there were. But as far as I know, they were dedicated system, dependent on the peripheral driver. You needed to program specifically for the hardware. So the idea of finding controls to work with these does not apply.
Microsoft started incorporating touch features in higher end versions of Windows 7, and finished the job in Windows 8.
However, Windows Form almost froze with the advent of WPF and later Windows Store, and they never incorporated the feature in the Windows Form controls. I am not aware of any third library that could do the job.
The only way I know to have touch enabled Windows Forms applications is to deal with the low level calls to the OS. Microsoft offers a few Windows Touch Samples that could help you get started.
You might be better of moving the application to WPF or Windows Store is you need to extensively work with touch.