Methods and systems for converting touchscreen events into application formatted data

A touch screen system, comprising:

• a touch screen presenting application-specific information;
• an application interacting with said touch screen to present said application-specific information, said application defining application formatted data sets utilized by said application in connection with said application-specific information;
• a sensor unit proximate to the touch screen sensing a touch screen event that occurs at said touch screen;
• an event table containing event zones associated with said application-specific information presented on said touch screen;
• a touch screen control module identifying, from said event zones within said event table, an active event zone containing said touch screen event, said touch screen control module outputting, to the application, an application formatted data set based on said active event zone.

A touch screen control module for converting touch screen events to application formatted data sets, comprising:

• a touch screen interface configured to communicate with a touch screen, said touch screen interface receiving touch screen events, each touch screen event being associated with at least one of a touch event, a release event, a drag event and a streaming event, an application interface configured to communicate with a software application, said application defining event zones, event modes associated with said event zones and application formatted data sets associated with said event modes;
• zone mode records associating event modes with said event zones;
• and
• an event identifier designating one of said event zones as an active event zone based on said touch screen event, said application interface outputting to said application an application formatted data set associated with said touch screen event based on said active event zone and an event mode associated with said active event zone.