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- Subject: Re: Touch screen input?
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- From: ping@ping.actrix.gen.nz (Peter Ingham)
- Date: 31 Dec 92 08:14:38 GMT
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- Eugene Pang (epang@fraser.sfu.ca) wrote:
-
- > Playing around with a MicroTouch touch screen (without driver/documentation)
- > I don't see how the MicroTouch can support finger dragging--it only outputs
- > the initial coordinates of a touch (checked this with VLT), and doesn't
- > output new coordinates unless you withdraw your finger momentarily. Which
- > IMHO makes it kinda useless as a mouse replacement, unless... Does anyone
- > know if (and how) it can be made to output a continuous stream of data?
-
- I use a Microtouch (also without docs) that was bought by another company (who
- cannot locate the docs for it).
-
- The two progs that were with it are GPTouch (the driver) and ??GPPrefs?? (the
- configurer).
-
- It can be configured to run with finger dragging, single touch or another mode
- which escapes me at the moment.
-
- If anyone can help with docs, I'd love to hear from you...
-
- A problem I have at the moment is the sampling rate. The finger drag runs very
- slowly with various apps due to the large number of small-increment mouse movements
- the driver appears to be simulating. I've played with the "sensitivity"
- control but this not appear to make much difference.
-
- --
-
- Cheers
-
- Peter S. Ingham ping@ping.actrix.gen.nz
- Lower Hutt, New Zealand 3:771/220.5
-