LCD buying/technical question

[xwxjncoxwx]

Wasn't sure where to ask this but...

Is there any difference between the 8.4" touchscreens you've posted on here and the 15" screens i see on newegg.com? There is a 15" screen 1024x768 screen for 300 dollars vs an 8" screen for 260~ dollars... It just seems silly for a small increase in money you gain that much size?

Am i missing something? The only reason I could fathom you wanting a smaller screen is in something like a car or maybe because you cant fit a second monitor on your desk?

Newegg.com - Megavision MV155U Black 15" 5-wire resistive USB Touchscreen Monitor 250 cd/m2 500:1 Built in Speakers - Touchscreen Monitors

Lilliput 809 GL 8" LED VGA Touch Screen TFT LCD Display

[Feed]

xwxjncoxwx,

I'd assume this is simply an issue of lowering prices on electronics. When TB was first developed, and when many folks started using it, touchscreens weren't widely available, and larger ones demanded high prices. Now, larger touchscreens are available at lower prices and there isn't as large a difference in price. I just recently stumbles across TB, and opted for a $120 15" overlay from Keytec.

The only other note I'll make is that many of the existing profiles were designed with smaller screens in mind, making the buttons seem quite large on a standard desktop display. It still works of course, and there's more real-estate for biulding your own profiles.

[xwxjncoxwx]

Originally Posted by Feed

xwxjncoxwx,

I'd assume this is simply an issue of lowering prices on electronics. When TB was first developed, and when many folks started using it, touchscreens weren't widely available, and larger ones demanded high prices. Now, larger touchscreens are available at lower prices and there isn't as large a difference in price. I just recently stumbles across TB, and opted for a $120 15" overlay from Keytec.

The only other note I'll make is that many of the existing profiles were designed with smaller screens in mind, making the buttons seem quite large on a standard desktop display. It still works of course, and there's more real-estate for biulding your own profiles.

Ok. Is there a way to make touchbuddy only take up a partial area of the screen and maybe show gauges or something around a profile?

I guess ill buy the 15" then

[Wild.Bill.Kelso]

Yes, Touchbuddy is a window like any other window. You just don't maximzie it and then there is area left on your screen. Just remember if you are running TouchBuddy on Local Mode that it is designed so that it will not send your game to the desktop if you touch it. But if you were to touch another area of the screen your game would probably minimize to the desktop. In Network mode this is not a problem.

WBK

[hendo97]

So does the overlay work with TB? By overlay I mean putting a touch panel over a normal LCD.

[Wild.Bill.Kelso]

Yes it does

[xwxjncoxwx]

Originally Posted by Wild.Bill.Kelso

Yes, Touchbuddy is a window like any other window. You just don't maximzie it and then there is area left on your screen. Just remember if you are running TouchBuddy on Local Mode that it is designed so that it will not send your game to the desktop if you touch it. But if you were to touch another area of the screen your game would probably minimize to the desktop. In Network mode this is not a problem.

WBK

If i was to write a program in c#.net for the remaining screen is there an easy way to make it not minimize the games to desktop?

[Wild.Bill.Kelso]

Yes. There is an API command I used a while back that I told Zolac to use that tells Windows to 'not' allow the window to be made Active. C# may have some library command built into it to do the same if you can find it. I believe it was an api that displayed the window with a NOACTIVATE parameter, telling Windows to never Activate or give Focus to that window. Then, when your game is up, if you click on it, it does not give it the focus and minimize your game.

There are downsides to not giving focus to a window. Yes, you can still click on it, but if it does not have the focus you cannot type into it. If it does not have the focus then the keyboard cannot sent keystokes to it.

WBK

[xwxjncoxwx]

Originally Posted by Wild.Bill.Kelso

Yes. There is an API command I used a while back that I told Zolac to use that tells Windows to 'not' allow the window to be made Active. C# may have some library command built into it to do the same if you can find it. I believe it was an api that displayed the window with a NOACTIVATE parameter, telling Windows to never Activate or give Focus to that window. Then, when your game is up, if you click on it, it does not give it the focus and minimize your game.

There are downsides to not giving focus to a window. Yes, you can still click on it, but if it does not have the focus you cannot type into it. If it does not have the focus then the keyboard cannot sent keystokes to it.

WBK

well c#.net has simple access to the windows api using p/invoke or something of that nature. you really should jump into the world of .net.. even VB.Net is much improved imo

[Wild.Bill.Kelso]

Yes, I now all about .Net and have studied the MCAD/MCSD Developing Windows-Based Applications with VB.Net and Visual C#.Net. Zorlac used Perl to write the main TB app. But at the time I wrote the Toolkit I could develop it much faster using VB6.