GroovylTouch
Touchscreen User’s Guide
Version 5.0
Contents
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Introduction
Welcome to the touch word with the most
premium touchscreens.
This user’s guide contains description to
the product, installation procedures, and
software driver installation and configuration.
Notice
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any amendments or functional changes on this
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Product Features
. Resistive Touch Panel
The touch panel is resistive. It is easy to
use in all the environments.
. Glass Panel
For CRT monitors, the glass is curved to
fit CRT surface at high temperature.
For LCD displays, the glass is processed
with chemicals for strength.
. High Resolution Controllers
The resolutions of both serial port and PS2
controllers are 4096x4096.
. Mouse Port
The controller has a mouse port. It allows
the mouse and the touchscreen working
together.
. High Sampling Rate
The sampling rate is 100 times/sec. The
response of the touchscreen is fast.
. User Friendly Control Panel
It allows user to configure the touchscreen
easily.
. Screen Calibration
The screen calibration in the control panel
allows user to calibrate the touchscreen for
accurate operations.
Product Specification
. Technology resistive
. Panel Thickness 1.0mm ~ 3.1mm
. Panel Hardness 3H
. Transparency 72% ~ 87.5%
. Activation Force 15g(std) ~ 150g
. Life Time > 3 million touches
. Touch Accuracy > 98.5%
. PC Interface serial port or PS2
. Resolution 4096x4096
. Communication Speed 38400 bps
. Operational Temp. 0 ~ 50 degree C
. Operational Humidity 20% ~ 80% RH
. Certification FCC Class B, CE
Touchscreen Kit Components
The touchscreen kit should contain the
components listed below.
. Internal Touchscreen Kit :
(for CRT or LCD monitors)
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Mounting Touch Panel
internal touhscreen for CRT monitors
The installation is suggested to be imple-
mented by technicians.
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Front Cover (1)
Figure 1 : Touch panel installation for CRT monitors
(a) Disassemble the monitor including the
front cover © as Figure 1.
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(b) Peel the protective film on the inner side
of touch panel and clean the surface of
CRT with lint free tissues.
(c) Place the touch panel @ on the top of
CRT and mark the positions for the panel
in the center.
(d) Peel the tape around back edges of the
panel, and stick the panel exactly on
the positions marked in step (c).
Note: The panel has to be in the center.
Otherwise, the active area of the
panel may be pressed by cover,
and cause improper operations.
(e) Seal with adhesive tape of high voltage
resistant around the edges of the panel.
(f) Bend the outlet cable ® and stick it on
the CRT with tape.
(g) Reassemble the front cover and CRT with
4 additional rubber pads © added to the
original rubber pads ©.
(h) Drill a hole on the back of the monitor
and fix the cable stopper.
(i) Thread the cable (from the controller to
the panel) and connect it to the outlet
cable of the panel.
(j) Connect the black ground wire to any
metal frame on the CRT.
Note : The ground wire has to be con-
nected properly. Otherwise, it
may cause damages on the
controller.
(k) Reassemble the monitor.
Internal touchscreen for LCD monitor
The installation procedures for LCD monitors
is basically the same as the procedures for CRT
monitors.
There is no double sticky tape on the back
and the touch panel could be placed on the top
of LCD display directly.
External touchscreen for CRT monitors
The external touchscreen should be mounted
in the front of the monitor as Figure 2.
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Figure 2: External touch panel installation
Note
Do not turn on the power before the controller
is connected to the panel. There may be static
charges induced to the panel and cause the panel
damaged.
Connecting Controller
There are two types of controllers for Inter-
facing the touchscreen to a serial port or the
PS2 mouse port of the PC.
Serial port controller
The serial port controller should be connected
to a serial port as Figure 3.
The serial port could be any one of COM1-
COM4.
The controller taps power from the keyboard.
A serial mouse could be connected to the
controller. The mouse should work together
with the touchscreen.
PS2 controller
The PS2 controller should be connected to
the PS2 mouse port. The controller takes power
from the mouse port directly.
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The original PS2 mouse could be connected
to the controller (the female end of the Y cable).
It should work together with the touchscreen.
Note
The LED on the controller should lit with
green color if the connections are correct and
the power is on.
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SVGA Port
Keyboard
Power-tap Adapter
Figure 3: Connections for serial port controller
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Software Drivers
Note: Please check the readme.txt file on the
CD before proceeding to the procedures
in this section, and the notes (if any)
should override this section.
Find the driver
There are drivers for several kinds of
controllers with different OS on the CD.
Please follow the steps to find the subdirectory
that contains the driver to be installed.
. Confirm the controller type from the sticker
on the back of the controller box e.g.
R41-COM, R41-PS2, R3D-COM, ...etc.
. Find the directory which contains the drivers.
The directory is named as the type of the
controller e.g. R41-COM ...etc.
. Find the subdirectory which contains the
driver for specific OS under the directory
of each type controller. The subdirectories
are named as the following :
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\DOS for DOS
\WIN31 for win 3.1
\WIN9S5 for win 95
\WIN98 for win 98
\WINNT for win NT4.0
\WINME for win ME
\WIN2K for win 2000
Installing the driver
. Change to the subdirectory found on
previous section.
. Run “install” for DOS or “setup.exe” for
windows. Refer to the following sections
for details.
. Change to the subdirectory.
. Run “disk” to copy the drivers to a floppy
disk for installing driver from the floppy.
(Run disk! and disk 2 for win 31).
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(A) DOS Driver :
Run “install.com" to install the driver
to the hard disk as the following :
> install <T:>
Where <T:> is the target disk ,
normally is c: or d:
The directory "\TSDOSxxx" is created in the
root of the target disk. All the files should not be
deleted or modified.
There are three programs for DOS :
TSMOUSE.COM — : Mouse Emulation Driver
TSDOSMCP.EXE : Touchscreen Control Panel
TSDOSCOM.EXE_ : Serial Port Configuration
Use "m.bat" to run TSMOUSE.COM for loading
the mouse driver. It searches for the serial port
which the touchscreen is connected to and load
the driver.
Use "m.bat" for unloading the mouse driver
too. If the driver is loaded, it unloads it.
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Use “s.bat" to run TSDOSMCP.EXE for chang-
ing the controls of the touchscreen and cali-
brating the screen size. The screen has to be
calibrated right after the installation.
Please refer to Touchscreen Control Panel
section for details.
Use "c.bat" to specify the |/O address and
IRQ of the serial ports. This is only used
while the configuration of the serial ports
are different from the defaults. Normally, it
is no need to run this program.
(B) Win 3.1 Driver :
Run “setup.exe” to install the drivers.
After installed, the touchscreen will be
configured as the mouse of the system.
Three programs are created for win 3.1 :
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. Touchscreen Control Panel Vxx.x
. Touchscreen Driver Installation Vxx.x
. Uninstall Touchscreen Software Vxx.x
The “Touchscreen Control Panel” is used
to change the controls of the touchscreen and
calibrate the screen size.
The screen has to be calibrated right after
the installation.
Please refer to Touchscreen Control Panel
section for details.
The “Touchscreen Driver Installation” is
used to select the touchscreen driver for the
system. If the driver is installed and other
pointing device is re—assigned for the system,
this program could be used to assign the tou-
chscreen back to the system.
The “Uninstall Touchscreen Software’ is
used to remove the touchscreen driver from
the system. The original mouse driver will be
re-installed.
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Run “setup.exe” from the corresponding
subdirectory to install the driver.
Three programs are created for windows :
. Touchscreen Control Panel Vxx.x
. Touchscreen Startup Vxx.x
. Touchscreen Uninstaller Vxx.x
The “Touchscreen Control Panel” is used
to change the controls of the touchscreen and
calibrate the screen size.
The screen has to be calibrated right after
the installation.
Please refer to Touchscreen Control Panel
section for details.
The “Touchscreen Startup” is to reload the
touchscreen driver.
The “Touchscreen Uninstaller’ is used to
remove all the touchscreen drivers from the
system.
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The touchscreen driver could not be re-
installed right after it is removed. It needs to
reboot the system.
E) Touchscreen Control Panel :
The “Touchscreen Control Panel” is an uti-
lity program for setting up the touchscreen.
It includes the serial port configuration,
touch emulations, cursor modes, mouse
speed control, screen calibration.
The program could be operated by k/b,
mouse, or touches. The functions are listed
in the following :
. Serial Port : Serial port configuration
For windows, it displays the configurations
of the serial port for the touchscreen.
Click the icon will display current
configurations for all the serial ports.
Click “SETUP” to change.
For DOS, the serial port could be con-
figured by TSDOSCOM.EXE (c.bat).
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. Vitual Button : Touch emulation modes
The touches could be set to emulate
the following 4 modes :
. Stream Mode :
The touchscreen sends coordinates to
the system only. No click is emulated.
. Lift Off Mode :
The touchscreen emulates clicks of
left key while lifted off.
. touch Down Mode :
The touchscreen emulates clicks of
left key while touched down.
. Drag and Drop Mode :
The touchscreen emulates clicks and
drag and drop functions.
. Feed Back Sound : Beep for touches
. Silence : No beeps for all touches.
. Touch Down only : Beep at touched down.
. Lift Off only : Beep at lifted off.
. Both Touch Down & Lift Off : Beep at both.
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. Mouse Speed : Mouse port control
This is to set the speed and acceleration
modes for the serial mouse connected to
the touchscreen controller.
. Calibration : Screen size calibration
The screen sizes need to be calibrated
with the actual sizes for the driver.
The touchscreen needs to be calibrated
right after the driver is installed.
The calibration data is stored in disk.
The data will be loaded when the driver
is loaded. It is no need to recalibrate the
screen except the screen size is changed.
For windows, the current VGA resolution
is selected for the calibration automa-
tically. If the VGA resolution is changed,
it needs to do the calibration for the new
VGA mode.
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For DOS, the VGA modes is selectable for
calibration. It needs to do calibrations
for all VGA modes which the application
programs may enter to.
. Cursor Support : (For DOS only)
. Enhance Mode :
The touchscreen supports the cursor for
all the enhanced VGA modes according to
the application programs.
. Standard Mode :
The touchscreen supports the cursor for
only the standard VGA modes according
to the application programs.
. Undisplay Mode :
The touchscreen driver disables the
cursor.
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION REQUIREMENTS
This equipment has been tested and found to comply with
the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part
15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to
provide reasonable protection against harmful interfer-
ence in a residential installation. This equipment gener-
| ates, uses and can radiated radio frequency energy and,
if not installed and used in accordance with the instruc-
tions, may cause harmful interference to radio communi-
cations. However, there is no guarantee that interfer-
ence will not occur in a particular installation. If this equip-
ment does cause harmful interference to radio or televi-
Sion reception, which can be determined by turning the
equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to
correct the interference by one or more of the following
measures:
Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.
Increase the separation between the equipment and
receiver.
Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit
different from that to which the receiver is
connected.
Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV techni-
cian for help.
| Shielded interface cables must be used in order to
comply with emission limits.
Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the
party responsible for compliance could void the user’s
authority to operate equipment.
