1. In a computing system comprising a touchscreen device, a computer-implemented method for performing an operation on the computing system in response to input received from a user of the touchscreen device, wherein the touchscreen device includes an interactive display device, the method comprising: receiving a first input at the touchscreen device, the first input comprising multiple concurrent touchscreen contacts; identifying one or more attributes of individual ones of the multiple concurrent touchscreen contacts; performing an operation on the computing system in response to the first input and the one or more attributes, the operation including toggling visibility of a touch pointer widget adjacent to or surrounding a cursor on the interactive display device; receiving a second input at the touchscreen device, the second input comprising a touchscreen contact within an area represented by the touch pointer widget on the interactive display device and dragging the touchscreen contact across a screen of the interactive display device; and in response to the second input, moving the touch pointer widget and the cursor across the screen of the interactive display device in correspondence with the dragging of the touchscreen contact.