G120E Development Board Display

TinyCLR OS
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Hi Guys,

Does anybody know if the 3.5 TFT display on the G120E development board is touch sensitive?

If so, how would I go about reading it in TinyCLR OS? Is it just a case of having to read the lines via the ADC?

Thanks

David

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The display does support resistive touch. However, TinyCLR doesn’t have a resistive touch driver at the moment. You’d have to try and implement one on your own if needed.

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Thanks John,

I haven’t got the board here with me at the moment but in theory can I just do something like this:

public class Touch
{
    private readonly GpioPin _x2Pin;
    private readonly GpioPin _y2Pin;
    private readonly GpioPin _x1Pin;
    private readonly GpioPin _y1Pin;

    private readonly AdcChannel _x1Adc;
    private readonly AdcChannel _y1Adc;

    public Touch()
    {
        var gpioController = GpioController.GetDefault();

        _x1Pin = gpioController.OpenPin(G120E.GpioPin.P0_23);
        _x2Pin = gpioController.OpenPin(G120E.GpioPin.P2_23);
        _y1Pin = gpioController.OpenPin(G120E.GpioPin.P0_24);
        _y2Pin = gpioController.OpenPin(G120E.GpioPin.P3_31);

        var adcController = AdcController.GetDefault();

        _x1Adc = adcController.OpenChannel(G120E.AdcChannel.P0_23);
        _y1Adc = adcController.OpenChannel(G120E.AdcChannel.P0_24);

        new Thread(Monitor).Start();
    }

    private void Monitor()
    {
        while (true)
        {
            //Read X

            _y1Pin.SetDriveMode(GpioPinDriveMode.Input);
            _y2Pin.SetDriveMode(GpioPinDriveMode.Input);
            _y2Pin.Write(GpioPinValue.Low);
            _x1Pin.SetDriveMode(GpioPinDriveMode.Output);
            _x1Pin.Write(GpioPinValue.High);
            _x2Pin.SetDriveMode(GpioPinDriveMode.Output);
            _x2Pin.Write(GpioPinValue.Low);

            var x = _y1Adc.ReadValue();

            // Read Y

            _x1Pin.SetDriveMode(GpioPinDriveMode.Input);
            _x2Pin.SetDriveMode(GpioPinDriveMode.Input);
            _x2Pin.Write(GpioPinValue.Low);
            _y1Pin.SetDriveMode(GpioPinDriveMode.Output);
            _y1Pin.Write(GpioPinValue.High);
            _y2Pin.SetDriveMode(GpioPinDriveMode.Output);
            _y2Pin.Write(GpioPinValue.Low);

            var y = _x1Adc.ReadValue();

            if (x != 0)
                Debug.WriteLine(x + "," + y);

            Thread.Sleep(10);
        }
    }
}

Is there an existing NetMF driver that I could port over?

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It’ll be something along those lines, yes. I don’t have a test program handy at the moment.