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When you search for calibrate, the first result is typically calibrate display color. Even if Windows highlights this result, this is not what you need. Make sure to select Calibrate the screen for pen or touch input.

If you haven't connected a keyboard and mouse or trackpad to your computer, connect them at this time. Having these devices connected makes it easier to undo any accidents or mistakes that occur during the calibration process.

Beetronics touchscreens should work plug and play and do not require calibration with the latest operating systems. However if you are experiencing difficulties, are using an older operating system, or a non-native resolution is being used - the touchscreen may need to be calibrated.

macOS:
Calibrating a touchscreen on macOS is done with a touchscreen driver, which can be found here: macOS touch driver download. The drivers are only compatible with Beetronics touchscreens and do not work with other brands.

After downloading and installing the driver, follow the steps to complete the calibration. Make sure the macOS display resolution is set to the native resolution of the Beetronics touchscreen, otherwise the touch will not work accurately. The resolution can be set in the System Preferences > Displays settings.

Linux:
All our touchscreens use a capacitive 10-point multi-touch panel. We do not supply Linux touchscreen drivers ourselves, but the touchscreens can be calibrated with any 3rd party PCAP driver depending on the Linux distribution used.

Windows 10-powered devices with touch-enabled displays are virtually everywhere, and they help us to do away without the mouse and keyboard to interact with applications more naturally using a pen or just our fingers.

Although there have been numerous advances in display technologies to make touch more reliable, eventually no matter the computer you're using, the screen can lose its accuracy. It may result in touch input not working at all, taps or swipes not registering, or the screen not responding with the same accuracy as it once did when the device was fresh out of the box.

The good news is that unless it's a mechanical problem, it's an issue that usually can get fixed by simply re-calibrating the screen. If you own a Surface Book 2, Surface Pro, Surface Pro, a Dell laptop, or any other touch-enabled device running Windows 10, you can use the built-in calibration tool to resolve this issue.

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I am having a problem in Touch screen calibration. Using Windows compact 7 BSP version BSP_WINCE_ARM_A8 2.00.00.02 and Hardware SBC8530 (from embest) with 7inch LCD. I modified the lcd_vga.c file to suite the 7 inch LCD (800x 480). Width is set to 800 and height is set to 480 for default LCD parameter.

After board boot up it requires touchscreen calibration where black marker is in the middle of the screen. I am using my finger and touching any area in 640 x 480 recognize my touch and moves the black marker not to full area of the LCD. Please refer the picture.

Black marker moves to 4 different position in the LCD and final reaches the middle of the screen when I touch the middle again it start calibrating marker move to left, so finally calibration screen stays always.

If the target moves when you press somewhere else on the screen other than the mark it is because you are not following the directions. It is trying to calibrate so it assumes where you press is the coordinate you want for that point, if you lie to it how is it to know?

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believe the cross mark as to move to four corner of the LCD (800 * 600. When I use the WINCE 6.0 Image come with the EVM it just works fine. Marker moves four corner of the LCD (800 x600) when I press on the target and finally it calibrates and exit the calibration screen.

Problem here is cross mark is not moving to entire area of 800 x480 7inch LCD. I believe the calibration software detects that I have connected 5 inch LCD and moves cross mark to a smaller area. You can see the picture I have attached in above post. I am trying to find a solution for my problem.

As David explained the calibration points have changed in WEC7 compared to WinCE6. If you have the TI EVM you would have seen that in WinCE6 the crossmarks used to be almost at the corner of the LCD screen. But in WEC7 on the same platform/same LCD the cross marks moved in. That does not indicate an issue. After calibration it works perfectly fine.

If the 5 points are precisely pressed using a stylus, and the calibration is still finished properly, the system will repeat the calibration - you will see the cross mark is set to the middle of the screen again.

Ok Now I understood the concept. When I use wince 6 image come with the EVM the calibration software moves cross marker moves to every corner of the LCD and I believed same should happen for WINCE 7. I am using finger for calibration today I will use soft tipped pencil and touch exactly at the displayed cross marks. I will try when I go home and let you know the result. Also I planning to use the RETAILMSGs to see the calibrated data.

The following steps must be done in a Windows environment, even if your touch screen is being used with a different operating system. After connecting the touch screen USB to a Windows device, follow the steps below.

7. This will bring you to the main menu. Make sure that the touch screen USB is connected to your device. If it is connected correctly, it will state Already link equipment. Should the device not be correctly installed, it will state Have not linked equipment. In order to disable right click, the touch screen must be properly connected.

9. After calibration is completed, you will be prompted to save the changes. Click Yes to save the calibration or No if you wish to re-calibrate. If there was an error while calibrating, an error will appear asking to either save the calibration or reset. It is recommended that you calibrate the touch screen again to ensure accuracy.

What is happening now is that.....i see the message Calibration is almost finished....sprout is detecting edges ...touch mat lights goes off and then...touch mat can not be detected.....before and after this failed calibration process, the touch mat works perfectly...

While sprout is calibrating...it projects light on the touch mat . ALL FOUR EDGES OF WHITE AREA MUST BE WITHIN THIS PROJECTED LIGHT ....IF ANY OF THE FOUR EDGES IS LYING OUTSIDE THE PROJECTION.. IT WILL FAIL THE CALIBRATION AND GIVING YOU ERROR "TOUCH MAT CAN NOT BE DETECTED"... this error message is so confusing that you thought about some hardware failure or malfunctioning...

Although i placed the sprout on a flat surface ...the lower edge of white area was lying outside the projection from sprout while calibrating.. i simple placed a flat piece of uniform thickness below the CPU front edge..it made all the four edges covering the projection ...hence calibrating easily now...

If the touchscreen calibration values are outside the required quality (after touching the 5 points on the screen), the calibration is rejected, and the process starts over.This is typically a sign of too much noise on the analog signals, or inadequate timing settings of the touch measurement process.

We have a mix here of old cabinets with new CPU/software. I believe some of them are M11 but you don't have to do anything special since they are using older hardware. Is the calibration for the small display or top one? If the small display, does it have a right angle video connector adapter?

It is. As the games are Windows based, the touchscreen calibration is done by running a little program. Older operating systems neglected to include a shortcut to this program in the attendant user interface, so you had to drill down into Windows and navigate to it from there. I had set ours up with a keyboard shortcut so once you got into Windows, hitting F12 would automatically bring up the app so we didn't have to fart around with trying to navigate the Windows UI with a keyboard. Newer operating systems have this shortcut in the attendant menu where it should be.

Before calibrating your touch screen, the Elo Touch Screen driver must be installed using the steps in the Installing the Elo Driver section below, unless the drivers were previously installed. If you are unsure whether the driver has been installed, see the Checking for the Elo Driver section.