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- From: epang@fraser.sfu.ca (Eugene Pang)
- Subject: Re: Touch screen input?
- Message-ID: <epang.725705005@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <epang.725595265@sfu.ca> <29DEC199201085088@loyola.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 08:43:25 GMT
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- mglicksman@loyola.edu (Michael `SLAM' Glicksman) writes:
- >[...In article <epang.725595265@sfu.ca>, I ask about touch screen drivers...]
-
- >I use a touch screen by ELOGRAPHICS(sp?). Any time you touch the screen, it
- >registers a Left mouse click at that position. Dragging your finger across the
- >screen is like holding the left button and moving the mouse. A right mouse
- >click is accomplished by pushing the CTRL key and touching the screen.
-
- Yeah...Elographics is right--I saw a driver for it on the AV disk. FWIW
- it seems to have 3 to 4 times the resolution of the MicroTouch touch screen
- (along either the X or Y axis). Curiously enough, I didn't see any mention
- of Elographics in Amazing Computing's Product Guide. How does it compare
- wrt price?
-
- 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?
-