TouchKit Barco TouchScreen Controller Installation & User Manual for Windows 2000/XP
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Chapter 1. Installing TouchKit Chapter 1. Installing TouchKit TouchKit is software that contains drivers of the touch panel and two other utilities. The two utilities are: • Touch Tray support This is a utility for emulating the right and left button of the mouse for controlling the touch panel. Users can toggle between right or left mouse buttons using this utility. • Configuration support The calibration and draw test of the touch panel are done by this utility.
Chapter 1. Installing TouchKit 4 5. Don't change the default setting. The default setting is unchecked. Then Press [Next >] to continue installation. 6. Choose the setup type that best suits your needs. There are two TouchKit accessory utilities for choosing: Rotation Monitor Utility and Shutdown Utility. You can install the utility you want by checking the box. Then Press [Next >] to continue installation.
Chapter 1. Installing TouchKit 7. Select the appropriate folder where setup files will be installed. Then press [Next >] to continue installation. 8. Enter the name of the program folder for TouchKit or press [Next >] to accept the default folder and continue.
Chapter 1. Installing TouchKit 9. During driver installation, the setup program will scan the COM ports to install the RS232 Touchkit controller. On Windows XP, the Touchkit controller driver will be installed automatically. Windows XP will prompt a warning message that the driver has not passed Windows logo testing. Press [Continue Anyway] to continue installation. 10. Windows copies files to the disk and the setup is complete. After finishing the installation, the computer needs to be rebooted.
Chapter 1. Installing TouchKit 11. After Touchkit installation, plug the USB touch controller into the computer. The Hardware wizard finds this hardware. Press [Next >]. It will search for the proper driver for the Touchkit controller device and install it automatically.
Chapter 1. Installing TouchKit After the driver is installed, Press [Finish >] to complete the USB device installation. 12. You can check the situation of controllers in the Device Manager. If the controller is set up well, the device manager will show the following entries.
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Chapter 2. Configuration Utility and Right Button Emulator Chapter 2. Configuration Utility and Right Button Emulator There are five property pages in the TouchKit utility: General, Setting, Edge coefficient, Monitors and About. Each property page contains different functions for users to do the adjustments. Therefore, users can easily manage all the TouchKit controllers through the TouchKit utility.
Chapter 2. Configuration Utility and Right Button Emulator TouchKit supports multi-language user interfaces. You can select the native language that is compatible to the operation system. For example, if the operation system is a traditional Chinese version, you could see the normal display words under the traditional Chinese and English mode.
Chapter 2. Configuration Utility and Right Button Emulator Select the compatible language first or users may not see the normal display of each button. / Please check if the touch panel devices (including their controller) are installed properly. The controllers are displayed in the Panel List box. You can get the information of interface, type, firmware version for each controller. Selecting a controller in the panel list box activates the corresponding touch panel.
Chapter 2. Configuration Utility and Right Button Emulator There are three buttons at the lower section of the General property page: [4pts Cal] [Draw Test] [Advanced]. Important Note: In Multi-head setups the Monitor mapping needs to be performed before calibration. See Monitors on page 26. <4pts Cal> The 4-points calibration allows to calibrate the touch screen and map the touch screen input to the Windows desktop. Press [4 pts Cal]. The following pattern appears.
Chapter 2. Configuration Utility and Right Button Emulator Touch the blinking symbol on the screen until the computer beeps or the symbol stops blinking. After calibration, new calibration parameters are stored in the display memory, overwriting the previous ones. Important: Do not touch the touch screen until the main screen appears again. Otherwise the new calibration parameters will not be written to the display memory and the calibration will have to be redone.
Chapter 2. Configuration Utility and Right Button Emulator In the drawing test window, you can click [Clear] to clear the window. Also, you can click [Quit] or press the right mouse button to quit from the drawing test. In the drawing test window, you can verify the panel linearity, calibration precision, and line drawing quality. Touchkit also provides a more accurate 25 points touch screen calibration. The 25 points calibration is recommended for improved accuracy.
Chapter 2. Configuration Utility and Right Button Emulator If you press [Yes] the calibration parameters in display memory are cleared and replaced by the default calibration parameters. Press [25ptCal] in the Advanced window to start the 25 points calibration. The following pattern appears. Touch the blinking symbol on the screen until the computer beeps or the symbol stops blinking. After calibration, new calibration parameters are stored in the display memory, overwriting the previous ones.
Chapter 2. Configuration Utility and Right Button Emulator Sound options The Sound options provide users an audible feedback when touching the panel. Select the preferred option. Select to disable the sound when using the touch panel. The system will make a sound when touching the panel. The system will make a sound when the finger is lifted from the touch panel. To adjust the sound frequency, drag the cursor from left (low frequency) to right (high frequency).
Chapter 2. Configuration Utility and Right Button Emulator To adjust the sound duration, drag the cursor from left (short) to right (long). Mouse mode The Mouse Mode provides users with different operating options. They are as follows: Click this button to show/hide the Touch Tray on the right bottom corner of the desktop. You can also show or hide the Touch Tray by clicking the mouse icon in the taskbar, which is loaded at computer startup.
Chapter 2. Configuration Utility and Right Button Emulator Touch tray Mouse icon You can select to which mouse button a touch on the touch panel corresponds. Change right/left button by clicking the upper small rectangular box of Touch Tray. The blue area expresses what button has been selected. The Shutdown utility is available only when it was selected to be installed during setup. Click on the shutdown utility in the task bar.
Chapter 2. Configuration Utility and Right Button Emulator Shutdown utility dialog There are five buttons in the shutdown utility. [Standby] to enter standby mode, saving power consumption. [Shutdown] to turn off the PC. [Reboot] to restart the PC. [Cancel] to minimize the Shutdown utility dialog. [Exit] to close the Shutdown utility. There are three kinds of mouse modes you can choose: [Normal Mode] Provides all the mouse functions, including the dragging function.
Chapter 2. Configuration Utility and Right Button Emulator [Constant Touch] Enable Constant Touch to force the driver to stop reporting touch points when the movement is within the defined range. Therefore, the user can see a stabilized cursor instead of a chattering cursor when users touch the same point with unwanted noise. Use this option to optimize the response of the touch screen for finger operation.
Chapter 2. Configuration Utility and Right Button Emulator [Apply] to apply the setting, and press [OK] to close the property page. If you want to cancel the function of TouchKit Hide Cursor, do the steps again and choose another scheme. Double click adjustment The Double Click adjustment provides users to set up the doubleclick speed and area tolerance.
Chapter 2. Configuration Utility and Right Button Emulator Double Click Speed is the double-click response time for Windows. You can adjust the double-click speed to make it easier performing double-clicks on the touch panel. When performing a double-click on the touch screen it may be hard to touch the screen twice on the same spot. Slide the Double-click area slider towards to enlarge the double-click area.
Chapter 2. Configuration Utility and Right Button Emulator If users set the Edge to , TouchKit will reduce the horizontal position of the top edge. If users set the Edge to , TouchKit will extend the horizontal position of the top edge. If users set the Edge to , TouchKit will reduce the horizontal position of the bottom edge. If users set the Edge to , TouchKit will extend the horizontal position of the bottom edge.
Chapter 2. Configuration Utility and Right Button Emulator Axis to , the cursor will be moved a number of pixels to the right. If users set the Offset Y Axis to , the cursor will be moved a number of pixels to the top. If users set the Offset Y Axis to , the cursor will be moved a number of pixels to the bottom. Users can Enable / Disable Edge compensation at the left bottom corner of Touchkit Utility.
Chapter 2. Configuration Utility and Right Button Emulator Monitors There are three functions in this property page: Multiple Monitors, Split Monitor and One Point Calibration. To configure the mapping relationship between the monitors and the touch panels, select the monitor page as below. Set the check box (Use Multiple Monitors) to enable multiple monitors mapping.
Chapter 2. Configuration Utility and Right Button Emulator After finishing monitor mapping, Press [Apply] to apply the mapping relation!! Special Case: When you have a dual (or more) screen setup and you have only one (or more minus 1) touch screen display, you cannot use the mapping tool (it will ask you to touch each screen, and you can only "touch" one since there's only one touch screen). In this case you need to map the single touch screen manually, which is done as follows: 1.
Chapter 2. Configuration Utility and Right Button Emulator Split monitor is needed when your graphics board uses a spread desktop, spread over 2 or more monitors. To use the Split Monitor function, you need to select which touch screen controller you want to define the location and resolution for. Make sure that Multiple Monitors and Split Monitor are both enabled. Press [Split Setting] to set up the activate area.
Chapter 2. Configuration Utility and Right Button Emulator About Information about TouchKit.
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