EMX support for 5-wire touchscreen

NETMF & Gadgeteer
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Hi

We are looking at incorporating the EMX board into our product but were wondering if it can support a 5-wire touchscreen rather than the 4-wire used on the development board. If so how does one go about modifying the driver to support the 5-wire?

Thanks

Ian

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You can add your own means for reading touch and then feeding that to your code. 5wire or capacitive, it wouldn’t matter.

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Thanks for the reply Gus.

We can certainly find a spare gpio pin and repurpose the existing 4-wire pins for the 5-wire interface. But that still leaves the question about the sw driver. I can certainly write a driver to interface to the GPIO and A:D to get the position information but I have two questions due to my newness with the .net microframework. First how do I feed the position data into the higher level touch driver? I have found TouchCollectorConfiguration.SetTouchInput but am not sure if this is the correct method or not. If so will gestures continue to be supported? The second question is how do I prevent the GHI driver from running as I don’t want it to interfere with my driver and think it is talking with a 4-wire device nor do I want it to take any CPU time.

Thanks

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If you are using our new glide (search forum) then it is very easy. If you are using WPF then it is not is not straight forward.

Once you have a system and are able to read touch and ready to feed data in then come back here and we will find a way to make it happen. By then it will be NETMF 4.2 and things maybe different.

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Hi Gus,

I want to do the same as Ian. I am currently at the point I want to feed the data in. So could you explain how to do this. (I am using Glide)

Thanks in advance!

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I have requested an example to be added to glide showing how this is done.It should be up in few days.