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09-16-2008, 03:00 AM #1
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Strange touchscreen behaviour
Hello all,
I've added a 10" touchscreen that I intend to use for FMC / GPS. I've mounted it vertically and used the graphic card software to rotate the display so Windows sees it as a portrait display.
The touchscreen driver software does have a 'support rotation' option which is selected. Setting up in FSX I get a nice portrait screen to use. However when clicking buttons on the screen the touch area appears not to have been rotated, so practically impossible to use as a touchscreen in this format.
Anyone have such problems with touchscreens or recommend a solution. I'm going to look for a new driver although not sure if I have to use a specific one. I'm also going to check if this behaviour is replicated in Windows. If it is not, then the problem perhaps is with FSX, but it's accurately rotated the display so no reason to believe that it's messing up the touch screen behaviour.
PaulVANCOUVER
Jet fighter / single pilot sim, plus thinking of a 777 as a secondary sim.
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09-16-2008, 08:21 AM #2
Yikes, that sucks.. Have you tried any other programs with it rotated. That should eliminate whether is MSFS or your driver... What kind of 10" touchscreen did you got with, i'm thinking of trying that for my flight computer also.
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09-16-2008, 09:18 AM #3
I was using the TouchKit driver (I think that's what it was called). Just Google it. Anyway. I had the screen rotated using the Nvidia drivers and also tested Pivot rotation software and the touchscreen worked fine using both. I was trying to use FsWidgets E-Flight Bag. Unfortunately I scrapped the idea for now since I couldn't get the program to stay on the right monitor...
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09-16-2008, 12:01 PM #4
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Hey Paul and guys,
Heres something you should most definitely look into without a doubt. I played with it, its FANTASTIC! http://www.chproducts.com/retail/mfp.html Paul you can pick it up over here by my place Aviation World, by South terminal on Russ Baker. Talk soon
Tim
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09-16-2008, 01:23 PM #5
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Haha now that's going to be difficult to tell you as the one I have is unmarked, but bought from ebay. I just had a quick look however, and visually it's identical to this one but this is not who I bought it from.
Screen is reasonable quality and about minimum size for using as touch control for panels. Also it uses power adaptor so unit is relatively light and its power cable is thin which is important for cockpit inclusion.
PaulVANCOUVER
Jet fighter / single pilot sim, plus thinking of a 777 as a secondary sim.
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09-16-2008, 01:28 PM #6
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Thanks Tim. I completely forgot about that product which I think you mentioned some time ago when I was at your place perhaps. It's a pretty cool product and nothing else like it for the money. What would be amazing is if the mounting sheet was also a screen and you could either configure one screen with multiple buttons around (like the G1000 arrangement), or multiple smaller screens (e.g. a radio stack on one side, a GPS on the other). Ok so I'm dreaming a little, but that really would be cool.
You say they have them in the pilot shop at YVR?
PaulVANCOUVER
Jet fighter / single pilot sim, plus thinking of a 777 as a secondary sim.
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09-16-2008, 04:30 PM #7
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Ya Paul,
Aviation World on Russ Baker way, about 5 min past my place.
Tim
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09-16-2008, 06:39 PM #8
And Tim's got the cold ones in the fridge. so we can stop in and have one on the way by *wink*
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Trevor Hale
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09-16-2008, 06:52 PM #9
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Just looked up where I bought the touchscreen from. Ebay store is here
Price was good but I paid a lot of brokerage to the courier. Cannot remember which one but Canadians get really shafted over this. It's like the Mafia control US-Canada border or something. I paid nearly $300 including all taxes and base shipping was really low, so nearly $100 in brokerage and taxes.VANCOUVER
Jet fighter / single pilot sim, plus thinking of a 777 as a secondary sim.
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09-16-2008, 07:09 PM #10
Paul, I never order anything from the U.S. unless it can be shipped by US Postal..... no broker fees with them.
Regards,
Henry
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