More and more, touchscreens are becoming the industry standard for annotation. An LCD panel with a touch sensitive surface connected to a Pointmaker is an intuitive way to draw over video.
There are several touchscreen manufactures. Please contact us for compatibility.
All Pointmaker models can be used with a touchscreen. In order to use a touchscreen for annotation there must be two connections from the Pointmaker to the touchscreen. The connections are one for video, and one for RS-232. See cabling for more info.
Once you have a compatible touchscreen connected and are beginning to set up your Pointmaker, you have to calibrate the touchscreen before it will work properly.
Turn the Pointmaker on. You’ll see a blue screen with the Pointmaker logo on your displays. There will be the splash screen, copy write message, and then video.
On the PVI-83 with COMM-4 or COMM-8 only you will see a message that states, “Input devices are about to be initialized. This may take some time. If you do not want to wait, press any key to cancel.”
Do not press any keys.
You will then see a message that says either, “Please wait – Initializing Input Devices COMM# 3 of 6" or "Please wait – Initializing Input Devices COMM# 3 of 10” (COMM 1 and 2 are not listed, but are initialized.) Once it goes though it’s initialization you will see your video passing thru:
1.) Press the “Print screen” key on the keyboard. You should see a “Setup Menu” pop up. If there is no keyboard use the digitizing tablet for access by pressing down the gray button on the stylus closest to the pen tip, and depressing the pen tip itself into the drawing area. Hold those two down for about 5 seconds and the setup menu should appear.
2.) Using the arrow keys on the keyboard or stylus on the tablet, place the cursor over the selection named, “Hardware Setup” and press Enter or press down on the drawing area.
3.) Place the cursor over the selection named, “Calibration” and press Enter or down on the drawing area.
4.) Place the cursor over the selection named, “Touch Screen Calibration” and press Enter or down on the drawing area.
You will now see a cyan colored screen with a small crosshair in the upper left corner on your displays.
5.) Go over to the LCD with touch and touch the crosshair in the middle.
6.) Repeat step 5 for all three crosshairs.
7.) Repeat steps 1 – 6 above for any other LCD with touch.
The touchscreens are now calibrated. Touch “Exit Menu” and you should be able to draw.
If the touchscreen does not draw, or the screen does not respond to touching the crosshair, please view our FAQ's for further troubleshooting.
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