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3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M 3M ™ Mic roTouch ™ Software MT 7 User Guide For Micro soft® W indo ws®, W ind ows® CE, and Lin ux® O perating S ystem s Read and un derstand all safety in formation contained in this document be fore using this prod uct.
2 3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M The information in th is document is su bject to ch ange without no tice.
3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 3 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M Content s A bout This Manual Introduction .................................................................................................
4 3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M Chapter 5 MT 7 for Linux® Overview System Requirem ents ..................................................................................
3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 5 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M A bout This Man ual Introduction This manual des cribes how to: • Install 3M™ M icroTouc h™ Softwar e MT 7 fo r your touch system and specifi c operatin g system .
6 3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M • It is important to avoid using any causti c chemicals on the sensor.
3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 7 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M C H A P T E R 1 Inst alling MT 7 Sof tw are 3M™ Mi croTouch ™ Software MT 7 all ows users t o select, l aunch, and drag obj ects using the sensor .
8 3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M • Whether t he touch acti on occurs when you touch the sensor or when you lift your finger (or st ylus) off the sensor. • Whether you hear a sound when you touch the s ensor.
3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 9 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M To inst all MT 7 software: 1. Make sure you have completed the appr opriate ha rdware connect ions. Seri al controll ers should b e connected be fore you begin.
10 3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M • If this is a new inst allati on, the defa ult option reflect s the driver t hat best su its your system. • If this is not a ne w installa tion, the ch osen option r eflects the driver you curre ntly use.
3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 11 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M Utilities a nd T ool s The Blank Cursor o ption enabl es you to hide the c ursor. By selecti ng this, MT 7 Software in stalls a blank cursor on your system.
12 3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M Note that t he silent install ation fa ils if t he instal ler reac ts diff erently than when i t was recorded.
3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 13 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M C H A P T E R 2 MT 7 Softw are Control Panel Overview The MT 7 software control pan el consist s of tabs t hat all ow you to determine the best settings for your touch system configuration.
14 3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M Mai n Tab This t ab covers sensor c alibrat ion as well a s basic supp ort infor mation. Calibration The cal ibration process al igns the sensor wi th the under lying video.
3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 15 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M Calibrating t he Sensor 1. Select t he Main ta b. 2. Click the Calibr ate butto n. Note: If you are using a stylus (pen) a nd you are in Pen/Finger mode, a dial og will ask whether you wish to cal ibrate us ing Pen or Finger.
16 3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M T esting the Calibrati on If you accidentally lift off from the sens or in the wron g place during calibr ation, you will distort the sensor calibrat ion.
3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 17 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M Controller Type This f ield displ ays the type of contr oller cur rently atta ched to your system. This dat a may be useful f or Techn ical Support issues.
18 3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M Touch Settings Tab The T ouch Settings ta b enables you to cust omize the response of your se nsor.
3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 19 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M T ouchdown Mode Touchdown Mode enables you to cre ate an immediate button a ction as so on as you touch the sensor . In Touchdown Mode, you cause a butt on down at the c ursor loca tion, with a short paus e and then a but ton up.
20 3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M Double-Click Speed (not available on Window s® CE or Linux® ) Double-click speed define s how quickly you m ust touch th e sensor for the system to interpr et your actions as a double-click.
3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 21 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M Edge A djustment Setting To set t he Edge Adjustment, move the slider s inward to de fine the of fset are a. These changes take effect imm ediately.
22 3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M Determine if the area you have defined i s suffici ent for your nee ds. Can you touch into the corner s and along the edges of t he sensor? Click Escape, End Te st, or Retur n to go back to the Edge Adjus tment tab.
3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 23 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M Tools Tab The T ools tab ena bles you to perfor m a variety of diagnostics to op timize the performance of your sens or. This tab is al so the gateway to advanced touch o ptions.
24 3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M Draw T est Note: You must be in Draw mode for this to work properly. The Draw program lets you tes t the opera tion of the sensor and pe n by checking the accuracy and speed with which the s ystem responds to your touch.
3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 25 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M If after rest oring controll er factor y defaults, you lose t ouch, you will need t o reboot in order to r estore t ouch. Note: You must perform a calibr ation aft er rest oring controll er defaul ts.
26 3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M Controller Tab The Contr oller ta b contains di fferent choices depe nding on the type of touc h controll er(s) you have atta ched to your system and which option s you selected fr om the Advanced Options from the T ools tab.
3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 27 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M Lineariza tion With cer tain contr ollers, you can perform a linear ization to fi ne-tune your touch sensor. It should be perfor med only at the directi on of 3M T ouch Systems, I nc.
28 3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M To test the accur acy of the linea rization proc ess, use the Draw Test pr ogram (found on the Tool s Tab) t o draw some lines on t he screen.
3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 29 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M If you are using the pen and you lift the pen from the sens or, the system does not recognize finger touche s until af ter a system-defined time delay.
30 3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M Adjust the frequen cy until your touch te st produces acceptable results . A good test is to go to the Draw program and hold your finger st eady on the sensor.
3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 31 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M C H A P T E R 3 Window s® CE Ov erv iew MT 7 Soft ware, a member of the MicroT ouch™ Software Suit e, provides unifi ed driver support fo r MicroT ouch touch t echnologies over a wide r ange of operati ng systems.
32 3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M Note: Hitti ng Cancel at any point wil l terminate t he Setup and cl ose the window. Welcome The fi rst scre en you will see is one welcoming you to the Setup wizard.
3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 33 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M Select Instal lation Folder In the Select Installat ion Folder sc reen you are fir st given the option t o choose your install ation fol der.
34 3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M Confirm Install ation The Confi rm I nstallat ion screen no tifies you that the set up is ready to ins tall. To conti nue and inst all cli ck Next.
3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 35 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M The Installer produces a ca talog file, T wTouch.pbcx ml that reflec ts the components that ar e instal led and could b e included i n a proj ect.
36 3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M Note: If you don’t see MT 7 c atalog items, you either di d not inst all MT 7 into Windows CE 6.0 root director y or you need to reopen the current pr oject .
3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 37 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M Slow Draw A nomalies Using Draw mode can be slow on certa in Windows® CE machines. For example, drawing a curve inside a draw applic ation may produce ragged lines and th e cursor may lag behind.
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3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 39 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M C H A P T E R 4 Window s® X P Embedded Overv iew MT 7 Soft ware, a member of the MicroT ouch™ Software Suit e, provides unifi ed driver support fo r MicroT ouch touch t echnologies over a wide r ange of operati ng systems.
40 3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M Use this Browse r to selec t the MT 7 components for your tar get image. The only required component is the MT 7 Touch dr iver. In the Component Browser, look under "Hardware:Devices :Mice and other point ing devices".
3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 41 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M C H A P T E R 5 MT 7 for Linux® Ov erv iew MT 7 for Linux® provides uni fied dri ver support for the Linux® oper ating system for kernel 2.
42 3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M Before Driver Instal lation Know if your pres ent Linux dis tributi on will be compatibl e with the M T 7 driver. There a re two terminal commands, which allow fu rther pre paration.
3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 43 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M • /usr/lib/xorg/module s/input or /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/ input • /usr/lib • /etc/init.d or /etc/rc.d • /etc/X11/xinit/xinit rc.d or /etc/X11/xsessions.
44 3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M HotplugDir Refer to t he symbol UdevDir for details. InitDir The MT 7 for Linux® software use s an init script, T WDrvStartup, t o start an d stop the touch driver.
3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 45 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M The Install sc ript ass umes that the hotpl ug support fil es are in t he direct ory /etc/hotplug/ . I f hotplug reside s elsewhere, c hange the defini tion of Hotpl ugDir to the appropr iate pat h.
46 3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M Cannot fi nd needed libstdc++.so i n /usr/li b Variat ions of t he message m ay refer to ot her direct ories depe nding on the sett ing of the LibDir variabl e in the Install s cript.
3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 47 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M Cannot install the init s cript The Install sc ript tr ies to det ect the pr esence of t he chkconfig and update-rc.d util ities and the /etc/rc.
48 3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M 3. The T WDrvStartup scr ipt must complete before running the X se rver. The TWDrvStartup script modifie s the X se rver configuratio n file (e ither xorg.
3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 49 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M Calibration M essages Are Unreadable The Cali bration pr ogram attempts to use a Helvetica f ont. If not found, it u ses a relati vely random font.
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3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 51 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M A P P E N D I X A Multip le Moni tor Setup ( Window s® O nly) Overview The Mul tiple Mon itor Mana ger enables you to set up multiple monitors with touch screens.
52 3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M 2. To assoc iate or l ink a sensor to a particul ar monitor, sele ct that monitor a nd simply touch a touc h screen.
3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 53 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M In the following screen, t here are 5 t ouch screen s and 9 monitors that can be lin ked.
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3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 55 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M A P P E N D I X B T roub leshooti ng the T ouch S ystem Overview This ch apter provides t ips and st rategies for problems you may encounter wit h the touch system either during inst allati on or normal use.
56 3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M If you do not have either of the se control lers, rer un setup, sel ect the upgrade o ption and under Control ler Support deselect EX and SX pen controlle rs.
3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 57 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M The doubl e-click area defines the space in whic h you m ust touch t he sensor f or the system to interpret your actions as a double-click.
58 3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M Check the following it ems: 1. Make sure the t ouch control ler is c onnected to t he correc t port. 2. Review the instal lation pr ocedures an d verify all hardware is properl y connected.
3M™ MicroTouc h™ Software MT 7 Us er Guide 59 3M Touch Systems , Inc. Pro prietary In formati on – 256 95M A Previous Version of TouchWare Softw ar e Was Detected Note: Before making any changes to the registry fil es, be sure t o make a backup copy .
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