Making Desktop Applications Touch-and-Pen Proof - Video

Most desktop applications are still primarily designed for mouse and keyboard interactions. But with the increasing popularity of 2-in-1s and other form factors with touchscreens and inking, adding touch and pen input handling to an application can offer valuable new capabilities with little effort.

In this talk, we will first give an overview of the APIs provided by Qt to handle touch and pen input within an existing QtWidget or QML application running on Windows or Linux. We will then present various strategies to complement a mouse-based UI with touch and pen capabilities.

Finally, we will get a sneak peek at some changes and improvements coming to the input stack in Qt6.

Slides are available on https://www.qtdesktopdays.com/making-your-desktop-applications-touch-and-pen-proof/