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ExactTouch : Making Tablet PCs Finger Friendly

Touch screens and Windows have never worked well together. Despite Microsoft's efforts in the tablet PC arena, their decade of Windows Mobile products, their "Surface" initiative, and their support of multi-touch in Windows 7, I sometimes wonder if anyone at Microsoft has ever actually used their own products. With a stylus the experiences are passable, but why should we be stuck using a stylus? Where the iPhone won big over Windows Mobile, and where the iPad now wins big over any Windows-based tablet PC, is in the lack of a stylus. The big reason you must use a stylus on Windows products is because they've made almost no effort to make things more finger friendly. Have you ever tried to touch the minimize window button in the top right of a maximized window? I miss it more often than I hit it, partly because it's small and within a few pixels of other buttons, and partly because accuracy at the edge of a resistive touch screen is decreased. And doing simple things like browsing the web on my Viliv S10 Blade tablet is made incredibly frustrating as I try to click a link to one story only to end up reading the story below it. To that end, I created ExactTouch, a very simple freeware application that makes sure you click only what you meant to!

It works like this:

• Touch to click as you normally do
• Zoom window appears to show you where you clicked
• If you missed your target, touch where you want in the easy to target zoomed region

Adjustable touch delay, zoom window can either be fixed where you like or will follow your touches, and you can make other changes in the .ini file.

NOTE: Click and drag not yet supported. No installer yet. And this is beta software, it works for me but your mileage may vary. Let me know of problems and I'll try to fix them as I have time. Written in AutoHotKey, source will be released once it's a little more mature or other people help out. Much thanks to the people on the AutoHotKey forums without whose example code I would never have gotten anywhere.

Download now (~300kb)!

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