How did this sneak up on me? I do remember reading that touchscreen support was "coming soon" to Continuum, but I use Continuum everyday in all kinds of scenarios and have not actually witnessed this feature yet.........until a minute ago.
I was experimenting with using the Surface Pro 4 as the wireless display for using Continuum with my Lumia 950XL. (It requires both devices to be running Redstone Preview, of course)
So that is exactly what I did. And sure enough, the SP4 was immediately listed as an available wireless display from the 950XL. I chose it and the SP4 quickly launched a window with a "pairing number" to type into the 950XL. Succeeded almost instantly! And the first thing I noticed was it appeared that the 950XL scaled beautifully on the ultra-high resolution SP4 display.
Then I launched our in-house corporate universal app that we are developing and it rendered in all its "desktop" UI glory.
But what happened next was an accident...........
I instinctively touched the SP4 screen with my finger to point out something to our software developer. I was stunned when the app responded to my touch as a command.
I don't know why, but I thought Continuum touchscreen support would require a hard-wired connection. I thought that because the touchscreens we put on everyone's desk (at work) requires both an HDMI connection and a USB connection to become a Windows 8.1\10 touchscreen workstation.
I'm stoked!
I'm fixing to install a Touchscreen in the Double-Din opening in my truck! You see where I'm going with this?
Yea, my truck will have a entertainment\navigation system that is agnostic to what brand my device is. The 950XL IS the head unit!
My passengers will have LTE internet (950XL hotspot) and my music, email, texting, GPS, ...etc are all driven from a device in my pocket.
Also, if someone were to break into the truck and steal my "stereo", all they got was my touch-screen.
We live in remarkable times. Every night I go to bed and wake up and they invented some new capability. I live in a Cracker Jacks Universe. lol
I was experimenting with using the Surface Pro 4 as the wireless display for using Continuum with my Lumia 950XL. (It requires both devices to be running Redstone Preview, of course)
So that is exactly what I did. And sure enough, the SP4 was immediately listed as an available wireless display from the 950XL. I chose it and the SP4 quickly launched a window with a "pairing number" to type into the 950XL. Succeeded almost instantly! And the first thing I noticed was it appeared that the 950XL scaled beautifully on the ultra-high resolution SP4 display.
Then I launched our in-house corporate universal app that we are developing and it rendered in all its "desktop" UI glory.
But what happened next was an accident...........
I instinctively touched the SP4 screen with my finger to point out something to our software developer. I was stunned when the app responded to my touch as a command.
I don't know why, but I thought Continuum touchscreen support would require a hard-wired connection. I thought that because the touchscreens we put on everyone's desk (at work) requires both an HDMI connection and a USB connection to become a Windows 8.1\10 touchscreen workstation.
I'm stoked!
I'm fixing to install a Touchscreen in the Double-Din opening in my truck! You see where I'm going with this?
Yea, my truck will have a entertainment\navigation system that is agnostic to what brand my device is. The 950XL IS the head unit!
My passengers will have LTE internet (950XL hotspot) and my music, email, texting, GPS, ...etc are all driven from a device in my pocket.
Also, if someone were to break into the truck and steal my "stereo", all they got was my touch-screen.
We live in remarkable times. Every night I go to bed and wake up and they invented some new capability. I live in a Cracker Jacks Universe. lol