Hi,
using Dorico 5 Elements on Windows 11 with a Fujitsu E24-9 Touch display.
Issue I have is:
Dorico’s UI ignores touch operation in some areas.
E.g. in the start screen:
The top menus bar works, but the main area does not.
In the main screen the top bar (Setup, Write, Engrave, …) does not recognize touch input, but the rest of the UI does.
Yes, I believe this is the expected behaviour at present.
Boring technical explanation: Dorico uses two different UI technologies in combination, and the Hub window and toolbar, for example, use the newer one, while much of the rest of the project window users the older one (though e.g. the Key Editor, Mixer, Keyboard, Fretboard and Drum Pads panels in the lower zone also use the newer one). The newer UI technology is designed to be touch-friendly, but we found that we needed to disable its touch capabilities when running on desktop in order to make mouse interaction work correctly.
This is something we plan to address in future, but it’s not clear where exactly the problems lie at the moment.
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I like technical information 
Anyway, I already ordered a mouse to be placed near the keyboard.
Hello! I now have a Samsung galaxy book4 which flips and becomes a tablet. Can I use dorico 5 on it and flip forth and back, or do I need a different app such as dorico se? I have started trying out the full programme in tablet mode but it isn’t intuitive to me, for instance I struggle with inputting text, and the program too easily starts note input which is tedious to undo. I’d also love to be able to add freehand annotations and have it updated across my devices - is that supported? My setup is this pc laptop and mac mini synced in Dropbox. Thanks for all your advice! So in love with dorico 
I’m not familiar with the Galaxy Book machines, but from a quick Google it appears that these are standard Windows laptops, so yes, you should be able to use Dorico on this kind of device.
I tried it on my Surface Pro, and touchscreen operation is available almost everywhere except the all-important Steinberg Hub interface and toolbar interface.
One of my guesses is that the entire window of Dorico receives touch screen operations, but part of the interface does not respond to touch screen operations.Qt has given TouchEvent since Qt 6.8, which allows software to respond accordingly to touch screen operations.
I can see that Dorico’s support for touch-screen operation is one of the best among all genealogy software, and it would be a pity if some of the important interfaces could not be operated by touch-screen.
Yes, we know there are still some parts of the interface that are not responsive to touch on Windows devices. This is something we plan to address in future, though I can’t say when.
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