Yes, Access can work just fine for use as a touch screen interface
as Rick has already mentioned. However, careful consideration
of the controls will be needed. In some sense you need to "unlearn"
some of your normal Access/Database interface design guidelines.
You need to make the controls bigger for sure and as Rick has
already pointed out, if you need the users to actually type something
in, you need to provide a form that emulates a keyboard. The
same is true for numbers; you need to present a number keypad
form. All of this is certainly possible. I've even considered making
some sample forms for this purpose, but have not found the time
as of yet.
Pay careful attention to combo boxes and list boxes as those can
sometimes be a pain. A similar question was asked yesterday and
I provided some simple code to drop down a combo box list
with a command button:
Private Sub cmdDropDownList_Click()
Me.cboMyComboBox.SetFocus
Me.cboMyComboBox.Dropdown
End Sub
For touch screen monitors just do some Google searching as
many different companies offer these. I am not at one of our
store locations today so I cannot provide the specific type
we use, but I think it is either an ELO (by Samsung) or a
CTL (by MicroTech). That's from memory, so I may be
off a bit.
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Jeff Conrad
Access Junkie
http://home.bendbroadband.com/conradsystems/accessjunkie.html
http://www.access.qbuilt.com/html/articles.html
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