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on-screen input
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The on-screen input tag covers discussions about alternative input methods in Windows, including the Surface Dial, which introduces a new paradigm for interacting with the operating system. Topics include simultaneous pen and touch support via Windows Ink, and how developers can use existing touch APIs to handle pen input. The tag focuses on hardware innovations that expand beyond traditional keyboard and mouse, emphasizing creative and collaborative workflows enabled by Microsoft's input technologies.
With the debut of Windows Ink in the Windows Anniversary Update, we introduced simultaneous pen and touch as the dawn of a revolutionary change in interacting with Windows. In our blog post, we discuss how you can use the APIs that you are already familiar with for touch to handle both touch and...
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