Where is "Touch"?

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Anyone located this program. It’s supposed to help out with
touch screen set-up, but I can’t locate it. I’m using Qnx4.25
and saw this referenced on the QNX support website. It didn’t
appear to be in the free software section.

Thanks,
Barry

2

I think Touch has been depracated. I have it on my system, but it
has a 1993 date. I believe Input has replaced it.

Previously, Barry Robertson wrote in comp.os.qnx:

Anyone located this program. It’s supposed to help out with
touch screen set-up, but I can’t locate it. I’m using Qnx4.25
and saw this referenced on the QNX support website. It didn’t
appear to be in the free software section.

Thanks,
Barry

3

Thanks! I was able to get it going by creating an input.3 (node 3)
file for Photon to load. Starting it with “Input” directly wasn’t
quite working.

-Barry

Ken Schumm wrote:

I think Touch has been depracated. I have it on my system, but it
has a 1993 date. I believe Input has replaced it.

Previously, Barry Robertson wrote in comp.os.qnx:

Anyone located this program. It’s supposed to help out with
touch screen set-up, but I can’t locate it. I’m using Qnx4.25
and saw this referenced on the QNX support website. It didn’t
appear to be in the free software section.

Thanks,
Barry

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Glad you got it going. If you need to configure it again, you
can use the inputtrap program to configure input.

Previously, Barry Robertson wrote in comp.os.qnx:

Thanks! I was able to get it going by creating an input.3 (node 3)
file for Photon to load. Starting it with “Input” directly wasn’t
quite working.

-Barry

Ken Schumm wrote:

I think Touch has been depracated. I have it on my system, but it
has a 1993 date. I believe Input has replaced it.

[…]

5

I wish it were that easy. ‘inputtrap’ wasn’t doing it for
me either. I think it kept thinking I had a mouse instead
of a touch screen. There’s even ‘mousetrap’ and it didn’t
find it, but I wasn’t sure it would in the first place.

-Barry

Ken Schumm wrote:

Glad you got it going. If you need to configure it again, you
can use the inputtrap program to configure input.

Previously, Barry Robertson wrote in comp.os.qnx:
Thanks! I was able to get it going by creating an input.3 (node 3)
file for Photon to load. Starting it with “Input” directly wasn’t
quite working.

-Barry

Ken Schumm wrote:

I think Touch has been depracated. I have it on my system, but it
has a 1993 date. I believe Input has replaced it.

[…]

–

__| _ \ _ | Barry Robertson
_ \ | | | Software Consultant Phone: 972-758-9349
| __ < | Software Remodeling, Inc. Fax: 972-964-7524
___/ _| __| brobertson@SoftwareRemodeling.com

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Barry Robertson wrote:

I wish it were that easy. ‘inputtrap’ wasn’t doing it for
me either. I think it kept thinking I had a mouse instead
of a touch screen. There’s even ‘mousetrap’ and it didn’t
find it, but I wasn’t sure it would in the first place.

Touchscreens don’t generally support PnP enumeration, and
therefore can’t be trapped.

What "inputtrap >/etc/config/trap/input.{node} does for you
is produce the rest of the Input command line (so you need
only add the touchscreen driver info).

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