3M MT7 - Manuals

6 3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M • It is important to avoid using any caustic chemicals on the sensor. • Always dampen the cloth and then clean the sensor. Be sure to spray the cleaning liquid onto the cloth, not the sensor, so that d...

3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 7 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M C H A P T E R 1 Installing MT 7 Software 3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 allows users to select, launch, and drag objects using the sensor. MT 7 provides support for MicroTouch™ sensor operation for all ...

8 3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M • Whether the touch action occurs when you touch the sensor or when you lift your finger (or stylus) off the sensor. • Whether you hear a sound when you touch the sensor. • Define a frame around the ac...

3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 9 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M To install MT 7 software: 1. Make sure you have completed the appropriate hardware connections. Serial controllers should be connected before you begin. USB controllers can be plugged in either before ...

10 3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M • If this is a new installation, the default option reflects the driver that best suits your system. • If this is not a new installation, the chosen option reflects the driver you currently use. Note ...

3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 11 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M Utilities and Tools The Blank Cursor option enables you to hide the cursor. By selecting this, MT 7 Software installs a blank cursor on your system. To always hide the cursor, open the Windows® Contro...

12 3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M Note that the silent installation fails if the installer reacts differently than when it was recorded. For example, if you record an installation using the "Upgrade" option and replay it on a ...

3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 13 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M C H A P T E R 2 MT 7 Software Control Panel Overview The MT 7 software control panel consists of tabs that allow you to determine the best settings for your touch system configuration. • Use the Main ...

14 3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M Main Tab This tab covers sensor calibration as well as basic support information. Calibration The calibration process aligns the sensor with the underlying video. Specifically, calibration defines the...

3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 15 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M Calibrating the Sensor 1. Select the Main tab. 2. Click the Calibrate button. Note: If you are using a stylus (pen) and you are in Pen/Finger mode, a dialog will ask whether you wish to calibrate usin...

16 3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M Testing the Calibration If you accidentally liftoff from the sensor in the wrong place during calibration, you will distort the sensor calibration. Test by touching several points on the sensor to mak...

3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 17 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M Controller Type This field displays the type of controller currently attached to your system. This data may be useful for Technical Support issues. The touch controllers supported with this release ar...

18 3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M Touch Settings Tab The Touch Settings tab enables you to customize the response of your sensor. You can change the way the system responds to your touch, add a right-click tool to your desktop, tell y...

3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 19 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M Touchdown Mode Touchdown Mode enables you to create an immediate button action as soon as you touch the sensor. In Touchdown Mode, you cause a button down at the cursor location, with a short pause an...

20 3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M Double-Click Speed (not available on Windows® CE or Linux®) Double-click speed defines how quickly you must touch the sensor for the system to interpret your actions as a double-click. Set the double-...

3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 21 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M Edge Adjustment Setting To set the Edge Adjustment, move the sliders inward to define the offset area. These changes take effect immediately. Click Test to preview your choices. The area you have defi...

3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 23 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M Tools Tab The Tools tab enables you to perform a variety of diagnostics to optimize the performance of your sensor. This tab is also the gateway to advanced touch options. Component Versions This is a...

24 3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M Draw Test Note: You must be in Draw mode for this to work properly. The Draw program lets you test the operation of the sensor and pen by checking the accuracy and speed with which the system responds...

3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 25 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M If after restoring controller factory defaults, you lose touch, you will need to reboot in order to restore touch. Note: You must perform a calibration after restoring controller defaults. Reset Contr...

26 3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M Controller Tab The Controller tab contains different choices depending on the type of touch controller(s) you have attached to your system and which options you selected from the Advanced Options from...

3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 27 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M Linearization With certain controllers, you can perform a linearization to fine-tune your touch sensor. It should be performed only at the direction of 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Technical Support. Linear...

28 3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M To test the accuracy of the linearization process, use the Draw Test program (found on the Tools Tab) to draw some lines on the screen. Check that they are smooth, straight, and thin. You do not want ...

3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 29 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M If you are using the pen and you lift the pen from the sensor, the system does not recognize finger touches until after a system-defined time delay. If your finger is on the sensor when the pen lifts ...

30 3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M Adjust the frequency until your touch test produces acceptable results. A good test is to go to the Draw program and hold your finger steady on the sensor. If the resulting pattern is a crisp and clea...

3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 31 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M C H A P T E R 3 Windows® CE Overview MT 7 Software, a member of the MicroTouch™ Software Suite, provides unified driver support for MicroTouch touch technologies over a wide range of operating systems...

32 3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M Note: Hitting Cancel at any point will terminate the Setup and close the window. Welcome The first screen you will see is one welcoming you to the Setup wizard. To continue click Next. License Agreeme...

3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 33 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M Select Installation Folder In the Select Installation Folder screen you are first given the option to choose your installation folder. The default option is the C\WINCE600. This represents the default...

34 3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M Confirm Installation The Confirm Installation screen notifies you that the setup is ready to install. To continue and install click Next. Installation Complete This is the final screen of the installa...

3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 35 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M The Installer produces a catalog file, TwTouch.pbcxml that reflects the components that are installed and could be included in a project. Instructions for Platform Builder for Microsoft Windows® CE 6....

36 3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M Note: If you don’t see MT 7 catalog items, you either did not install MT 7 into Windows CE 6.0 root directory or you need to reopen the current project. Finally, perform a ‘Rebuild Solution.’ This cre...

3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 37 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M Slow Draw Anomalies Using Draw mode can be slow on certain Windows® CE machines. For example, drawing a curve inside a draw application may produce ragged lines and the cursor may lag behind. The "...

3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 39 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M C H A P T E R 4 Windows® XP Embedded Overview MT 7 Software, a member of the MicroTouch™ Software Suite, provides unified driver support for MicroTouch touch technologies over a wide range of operatin...

40 3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M Use this Browser to select the MT 7 components for your target image. The only required component is the MT 7 Touch driver. In the Component Browser, look under "Hardware:Devices:Mice and other po...

3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 41 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M C H A P T E R 5 MT 7 for Linux® Overview MT 7 for Linux® provides unified driver support for the Linux® operating system for kernel 2.4 and 2.6. This product includes a user-space sensor driver, an X ...

42 3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M Before Driver Installation Know if your present Linux distribution will be compatible with the MT 7 driver. There are two terminal commands, which allow further preparation. uname -r This will show th...

3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 43 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M • /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input or /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input • /usr/lib • /etc/init.d or /etc/rc.d • /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d or /etc/X11/xsessions.d If your system does not have these directories yo...

44 3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M HotplugDir Refer to the symbol UdevDir for details. InitDir The MT 7 for Linux® software uses an init script, TWDrvStartup, to start and stop the touch driver. Normally, this runs at run level 5. If y...

3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 45 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M The Install script assumes that the hotplug support files are in the directory /etc/hotplug/ . If hotplug resides elsewhere, change the definition of HotplugDir to the appropriate path. If you want to...

46 3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M Cannot find needed libstdc++.so in /usr/lib Variations of the message may refer to other directories depending on the setting of the LibDir variable in the Install script. The installation script coul...

3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 47 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M Cannot install the init script The Install script tries to detect the presence of the chkconfig and update-rc.d utilities and the /etc/rc.d/rc.local script. If it cannot find any of these, this messag...

48 3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M 3. The TWDrvStartup script must complete before running the X server. The TWDrvStartup script modifies the X server configuration file (either xorg.cfg or xfree86.cfg ). When the system shuts down, th...

3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 49 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M Calibration Messages Are Unreadable The Calibration program attempts to use a Helvetica font. If not found, it uses a relatively random font. This font may be unreadable. To override this behavior, se...

3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 51 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M A P P E N D I X A Multiple Monitor Setup (Windows® Only) Overview The Multiple Monitor Manager enables you to set up multiple monitors with touch screens. You must intentionally load this utility duri...

3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 55 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M A P P E N D I X B Troubleshooting the Touch System Overview This chapter provides tips and strategies for problems you may encounter with the touch system either during installation or normal use. 3M ...

56 3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M If you do not have either of these controllers, rerun setup, select the upgrade option and under Controller Support deselect EX and SX pen controllers. Complete the software setup and reboot your syst...

3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 57 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M The double-click area defines the space in which you must touch the sensor for the system to interpret your actions as a double-click. Set the double-click area in the medium to high range for optimum...

58 3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M Check the following items: 1. Make sure the touch controller is connected to the correct port. 2. Review the installation procedures and verify all hardware is properly connected. Check the serial por...

3M™ MicroTouch™ Software MT 7 User Guide 59 3M Touch Systems, Inc. Proprietary Information – 25695M A Previous Version of TouchWare Software Was Detected Note: Before making any changes to the registry files, be sure to make a backup copy. If the MT 7 installer reports this, then uninstall TouchWare...