That would be right, you would need to write your own app.
Here is a FAQ about a story written by a magazine contributor about writing touch screen interface software, it used our LH79524-10 card engine, but it may be of interest to you:
http://www.logicpd.com/blog/view.php?bp_id=123
If you just needed to do some testing on the hardware, CE may be a demo test for you. We have the touch driver working, although at the current time the performance on larger screens is not good. We are working to update this currently. If you would consider this, let me know and I can try to give you some timelines for a new driver release.