Windows 10: Windows 10 touch screen driver press and hold left mouse equivalent

I currently need the ability to press and hold on a touch screen and have it treated the same as pressing and holding a mouse left click. With the default Windows 10 touch screen driver it seems like my only options are treat press and hold as a right click or do nothing. The only time I see anything is when I release the press which seems to be treated like a click of the left mouse. Is there a way to change this behavior so the press is equivalent to a press of the left mouse button and the release is the release of the mouse button?

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Simulation of left-click press and holding on windows touchscreens

Greetings,

Our developers noticed an issue when importing an older functionality to Windows 7/8.1/10. This seems to have been present in Windows for a long time now. Our application requires the user to press and hold buttons, without moving cursor, on the touchscreen.
However, we noticed that the press and hold cannot be performed, as the left-click is only detected when the user releases the touchscreen and the holding action is only detected on cursor movement.

It appears the windows touch driver cannot enable a click-on-press, which we need, and only handles click-on-release or click-and-move.

We have already disabled press and hold right-clicking and this did not solve the issue.

This is the same issue reported multiple times in the past, on multiple versions of windows, without resolution.

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My question is: have any Microsoft users, developers or device driver developers been able to circumvent this?

Thanks in advance.

 

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?

 

Touch Screen Monitor w/ Windows 10 'Mouse' issues


So I bought an ASUS VT207 touch screen monitor yesterday. Set it up and it worked fine for a couple hours but then it started right clicking with every other click. I've been trying to debug the issue and reading on a lot of other peoples problems and I think I've found the root cause.

The touch screen isn't right clicking, but actually holding down the left click every time I tap on the screen. When you press-and-hold on a touch screen it will open the right click menu. Only way for me to actually left click something is to tap the screen multiple times very quickly. I've tested this on some text and the touch screen will attempt to high light text on simple taps. When on youtube and I click on a video it will make the thumbnail high light like the mouse is hovering over it but it wont actually click on it.

I've been messing with the Tablet PC Settings but not even shutting off all the Pen and Touch settings (Double-tap and Press-and-hold) fixes the issue. Does anyone else have any ideas. Disabling and re-enabling the driver in device manager doesn't fix it. Only solution I've found is restarting my computer every 15-60 minutes.