Java windows app - is it possible to detect if the current device has touchscreen capability?

As it says in the title, I have a Java app that runs on Windows (using SWT). How can the java app detect if the machine has touch screen capability?

The purpose is to present different UI elements if touch screen is available.

Posted by Roy Tang under notes at 9 Jun 2014 7:18am #java #touch #questions #stackoverflow #software development
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insyncim64

As far as I can see, you could only use a function in User32, which is called GetSystemMetrics. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms724385(v=vs.85).aspx

There are many ways to get access to this library in Java. Although none of them looks pretty nice.

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