Dear pygame-users,
I'm writing some basic pygame programs for use in a research study with
children in schools and I would like to start using a touchscreen laptop with
them. My code works fine with a standard mouse but I'm getting strange errors
when I try with a touchscreen monitor - I would be grateful for any advice at
all.
The problem is that the mouse position co-ordinates I get from the touchscreen
don't bear any relation to what I get with a standard mouse. Its a USB HID
touchscreen so I had expected it to act like a mouse with one button. But, for
example, the following section of code prints appropriate mouse co-ordinates if
I click the 'normal' mouse, but strange (meaningless?) co-ordinates if I touch
the touchscreen, even though the mousemotion and mouse button events are
identified as the correct type.
for event in pygame.event.get():
print pygame.event.event_name(event.type)
if event.type==MOUSEBUTTONDOWN:
print event.pos
My display is set up simply like this: windowSurface =
pygame.display.set_mode((0, 0), pygame.RESIZABLE, 32) ... and I'm working in
Windows for this project. I've already tried updating my drivers and my version
of directX, and have calibrated the touchscreen using the software provided
with the laptop - it works fine for other programs.
I'm not an expert programmer so would be grateful for any advice - is there
something I have missed about setting the display, or about using two input
devices? I'm really stuck!
Any advice gratefully received - many thanks,
Caroline
