Can it be?

Clarifications

Where did you hear that from? I am not sure that would be possible because I would be imagining that the inner workings of the basic LCD screen would be alot differant to the inner workings of a touch screen (I don't know much about monitors tho).

I don't think I would want to be pressing down to hard on my new shiny LCD screen anyway.

A Touch Screen has LEDs around the edges and Light Sensing Receptors so that when you break the light beam that interprets the touch.

What you have discovered is the Touch Screen controls which have nothing at all to do with a conventional Screen.

If you want to use this feature you need a Touch Screen. ;)

Col

Is it just because 7 will support touch screens?

I keep seeing this question on the Intertubes. It seems that people think software works like Star Trek computers, where a couple of keystrokes can radically reconfigure physical hardware. No can do.

I don't intend this as a put-down, I'm genuinely baffled by concept.

'Is it', is the question.

This program is for those who have touch screen hardware as part of their monitors. You need a specific touch screen monitor for these controls to have any meaning. Touch screens come in two flavors, one is as described, a row of infra-red emmitters on one side of the display and a row of receivers on the opposite side to sense when a point on the display is "touched" to discern an "X $ Y" axis. The other method is using a "TSO" or touch sensive overlay. This is a see through plastic panel that has sectors that will sense when the screen is touched and where. These are hardware devices that can be added to a monitor or must be bought with the monitor itself as an integral part of the display.

I wouldn't go straight to saying that I am studying it, I am struggling to understand it.