Hello,

The wacom external can work without the mouse pointer because wacom have implemented this function in the driver, and because the wacom object call this fuction.

I don't know if elo touchscreens could have the same behaviour, but you can look if they provide an API for the devellopers of software that uses an elo touchscreen; may be you can find some info there...

Jean-Michel

salut jean-michel,

thanks for your answer. and many thanks for the great wacom external, you wrote!

and yes, i am thinking of a similar external for add-on touchscreens. there is a company (egalax) which supports a controller for touchscreen which has drivers also for osx and also for the new intel machines.

but first, i am not sure which add-on touch screen fits together with the egalax controller.

and second, i am not sure what the egalax driver is supporting.

and third, if the api is offering something like a separated function call, from the mouse call...

there is a brief description form their website: http://www.egalax.com/pdfs/SoftwareGuide.pdf

all the best, jens

Hi

I use a Elotouch 2500U (Intellitouch technology) with max. it's driver just emulate the mouse, but it works very well. I had to customize my GUI in max (with bigger buttons, sliders, joysticks...) it works great, much faster than using a mouse. My touchscreen is supposed to send pressure data too, but as it is recognized by the system as a mouse, I have no idea on how to get this data. (Hi do not see it). I asked Elotouch, they just told that I have to write my own driver to get pressure data... (there is a sdk, ...but I have no idea on how to do that!) the resolution of the touch surface is much bigger than the resolution of the screen (just like wacom tablets) and I would love to have a "touchscreen" max object to be able able to use the full resolution & pressure of my touchscreen (and maybe disable mouse emulation could be useful too, just like with the wacom object). I know nothing about writing driver, but I would be very interested by testing anything that could improve my use of this screen...

best

Mathieu Chamagne www.maxobjects.com

Hi Mathieu,

I downloaded the drivers from the ELOtouch.com website. It all works great now. I guess I should have checked there before posting to the list. Duh.

Brian