Main monitor is touch. How to use it in BMS?

[DonLduk]

Hello.
I just purchased a new ASUS laptop and it has a touch screen.

I wonder how can I use it on falcon? it works perfect on windows8.1 (rather precise and quick on the presses) however when I run FBMS nothing happens (in fact, the mouse disappears, goes to the bottom of the screen).

does anyone know how to get this working?

thank you. cheers!

[Arty]

Sorry couldn’t resist:

Samantha Fox - Touch me (I Want Your Body) – 03:46
— darkbust88

Jokes aside well those win8.1 have some new features for touch devices that maybe use different approach then like a mouse driver… So it might not work as u want, thought.

[Zoomout]

Hi DonLduk

AFAIK It is not possible to use a touchscreen as a “direct” interfase in the 3D cockpit - if that is what you would like to accomplish? But I might be wrong. I have not fully tested it.

Initially I think your input (touches) will be interpreted as mouselook, so instead of pushing buttons you’ll be changing the POV. You might try disabling “mouselook” and use POV-hat on your stick or a headtracker for POV but still I’m not sure you’ll be able to push buttons in the pit.

If mouselook IS enabled (should be by default) - your POV should change if you press the screen (or make a swipe across it). Depending on your setup, you might have to press the left button on your mouse, while touching (or swiping). - This will just be to check wether your touches are registred in the Falcon 3D world at all. If nothing happens my guess will be, that it is a screen setup issue - and not a BMS thing.

I’m in no way a wizz on these things, but the above is just based on my own experiences with touchsceen and BMS.

I’m in the process of building a physical simpit, so I havn’t been doing any further digging, but I’ve been using Helios as an interfase - using the touchscreen as a secondary monitor, and that works great and is very versatile in regard to having all the panels available on one screen and having to use different setups for different sims/games if you so desire.

Good luck… and let’s know if you find a solution.
I guess it would be a nice feature if the 3D pit would be “directly accesable”

Best regards
ZoomOut;)

[DonLduk]

Hello, thank you for your reply.

I forgot to mention, for mouse look I have tracker. So really all I need is to translate the touch to a click in the 3D cockpit and thats nirvana.