Windows 10: Touchscreen: Mouse-Over equivalent action?

Is there a way to do a "mouse-over" action without a pointer input device?

Such a case for example is where a menu dropbox opens up on mouse-over. Then you move the mouse over the menu item selection and then click. It doesn't seem to work with your fingers.

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Windows 10 Stylus no longer works like a mouse on my tablet. How can I get back mouse functionality?

Here are the pen and mouse equivalents.

Mouse Activity
Pen Equivalent Description

Point
Hover Hover the stylus above the touchscreen. (Don’t touch!)

Click Tap Tap the stylus on the screen.

Double-click Double-tap
Tap the stylus twice on the same spot

Right-click Long-tap
Tap and hold the stylus on the same spot

Drag
Drag Touch the stylus to the screen and move the stylus a little

Right-drag Right-drag
Press and hold the stylus button while keeping the stylus on the screen.

Feel free to post back if you have any other concern.

 

Getting 'press and hold' to work on a touchscreen in Windows 10

Thanks for the reply.

To be honest, I'm a little surprised it doesn't revert to 'mouse equivalent' when 'mouse right-click' is disabled. I mean, when I disable 'sticky keys' on my keyboard my desire isn't to disable the 'shift key.' This feels like a very odd design choice.

Or at the very least it would be nice if we could remap 'press and hold' to 'mouse equivalent' in the Pen and Touch settings screen. The fact that we can't remap to an alternative function is pretty inconsistent with how the rest of Windows 10 works, and
indeed with how most drivers work.

Suffice to say I guess I'm pretty frustrated. I'll try giving Microsoft feedback, but in the meantime I'm left with a touchscreen that doesn't serve my customers. . . If I want to fix this, is my only real option switching to another platform?

 

Have you tried holding your finger on the menu item for a second or two to see if it opens the drop box?

 

Well, the problem is that you can't select the menu item, even if you can open it. Like dragging your finger to something below doesn't really work. It's not a drag operation that it expects. It's a "mouse-over without button-down" that it expects. Seems to happen to all websites designed with this type of dropbox.

Go here and check out the menus. When you hold your finger on the "SERIES", you get the drop-down. Then you can't let go cuz it will disappear.
SHOWTIME ANYTIME

 

Not that I'm aware of ...
That would be finger-over - joking of course

The HTML is coded with js specific to mouse (or other Human Input Devices HID) operations.