How do you test touch-enabled apps on a non-touch Windows?

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I have a desktop Windows app developed using a non-Visual Studio environment (Delphi) and run Windows 7 in a VM, but otherwise standard desktop. I'd like to test some touch features, and so would like to mimic touch on desktop Windows. How do you do this?

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• Use the Surface 2 SDK. Installs only if you have VS2010. (I have VS2013 installed currently.)
• Inject touch events via a touch injection API. Writing your own touch simulator seems a little surprising, and in addition this reportedly only works on Windows 8.
• Use the Windows Simulator. With my Visual Studio 2013 installation, there are DLL files present but no simulator. Googling shows no results for how to install it, or what it is a prerequisite for or installed with, in order to install it by installing something else. It may (?) also work only with Windows Store apps, it's hard to tell.

There are a number of other replies which rely on using Visual Studio.

So, for a Windows 7 desktop machine, using a non-Visual-Studio-developed app, how do you simulate touch?

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One simple solution consist to use a TActionList and link it with a TGestureManager. In the Form Property "Gestures" choose a gesture and Create an new action linked with the combobox.

In the TActionList choose the new created Action and put your code in it.

Now, you can simulate the gesture with a call to the action.