asked on 7/22/2008

Auto-Calibration for touchscreen monitors?

We rollout new monitors all the time (all touch screens) and each time one breaks and we need to put in a new one, we have to calibrate it. Is there a way to auto calibrate upon swapping out the monitor so nobody has to do it? We won't have people there to calibrate it... Is there a INI file that sets the calibration or something? We can send out that file to all the computers and that would work, but I'm not quite sure how these work. Thanks

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Freshcafe

8/2/2008

Darr247

7/22/2008

Most touch screen drivers have calibration utils in the Control Panel. After starting the util you simply touch 3 spots on the screen where fingertip-size circles appear, one by one, and it's done... that corrects for parallax error as well, in case the user always has to view the monitor from an angle (of course, then it appears to be out of calibration when viewed straight on).
Have you really had a lot of customers complaining they couldn't calibrate their screens?

jasgiv1122

7/22/2008

ASKER

Actually we were looking to preload the correct calibration file, so that calibration is not necessary (they're all the same computer/monitor). Is this possible? I would imagine there is something detecting calibration settings...

Darr247

7/23/2008

I think if it was possible they would not need calibration utilities.
Are you talking CRT or LCD monitors, btw?

jasgiv1122

7/23/2008

ASKER

I'm pretty sure there is an .ini file associated with touchscreen monitors (maybe just these?). These are LCD.

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Dominic_

7/23/2008

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Freshcafe

8/2/2008

In case you wanted a 2nd opinion Dominic is quite correct. You may even find that problem on the same screen in some cases where the points drift over time. So absolutely no chance of doing it automatically especially for different monitors (even if they're the same model)!
Cliff