Hi René and Florian Many thanks for your suggestions - I tried both and your suggestion René does the trick - it works perfectly now. Many thanks indeed!!!!
Florian, thanks for the link to your framework - it looks great. There is definitely a need for this kind of package because the alternatives are generally so expensive and/or cludgy. Its something I will be very interested in trying for our neuroimaging labs here. Best wishes - and thanks again Caroline From: owner-pygame-us...@seul.org [mailto:owner-pygame-us...@seul.org] On Behalf Of René Dudfield Sent: 28 April 2011 11:07 To: pygame-users@seul.org Subject: Re: [pygame] touchscreen laptops with pygame Hello, can you try using this? import os os.environ['SDL_VIDEODRIVER'] = 'windib' before importing pygame. cheers, On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Witton, Caroline <c.wit...@aston.ac.uk<mailto:c.wit...@aston.ac.uk>> wrote: Windows XP at the moment - though I will try and get it upgraded to Windows 7, especially if that might make a difference Best wishes Caroline Dr Caroline Witton Reader in Neuroscience Manager, Wellcome Trust Lab for MEG Studies 0121 204 4087 . c.wit...@aston.ac.uk <mailto:c.wit...@aston.ac.uk> Students can make an appointment to see me here: https://wass.aston.ac.uk/wass P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail From: owner-pygame-us...@seul.org<mailto:owner-pygame-us...@seul.org> [mailto:owner-pygame-us...@seul.org<mailto:owner-pygame-us...@seul.org>] On Behalf Of René Dudfield Sent: 28 April 2011 10:58 To: pygame-users@seul.org<mailto:pygame-users@seul.org> Subject: Re: [pygame] touchscreen laptops with pygame Hi, what version of windows are you using? cheers, On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Witton, Caroline <c.wit...@aston.ac.uk<mailto:c.wit...@aston.ac.uk>> wrote: 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
