ajsphead wrote:Still sorting out options before buying Hauptwerk. Can anyone tell me if touch screens can be configured to run in portrait rather than landscape? I'm planning on using 21.5" screens or bigger so this will more accurately reflect the shape and size of many jambs and will also work better with my existing console.
Thanks
Anthony
Hi Anthony - unfortunately there is no easy solution to the screen orientation. I, myself can pivot my screens on articulating arms three ways... Portrait for "standard" stop jambs. Landscape for consoles mimicking terraced jambs and also pushed together to portray Stop Tab Jambs on the Name Board above the keyboards.
I wrote to the manufacturer regarding a quick way to change the orientation from portrait to landscape with maybe an on-screen icon that one could touch and Voilé! quick change.
Nope...first of all they asked "why" I would want to do that? Apparently the driving force for custom computers (gamers) and a full thirty years after touchscreens hit the market. I worked putting together a support division with hardware and software for a Point-of-Sale company using touchscreen monitors hardwired to a "network" before these were common terms utilizing Double-DOS!
Anyhoo...when I explained what I would like to do he said "you cannot create a shortcut for the screens use the graphic interface"
So back at square one - I think that a shortcut on the desktop is doable but I do not have the modern tech ability to write an application to do that.
It sure would be nice because my graphics interface (gforce from MSI) has four tabs to navigate and then you must configure both screens separately AND have to have Windows recognize the screens.
Someone should have had this problem solved two decades ago - they were counting on the trend toward "smart-phones and tablets", never giving second thought to simultaneously using more than one touchscreen on *gasp* a DESKTOP Computer. Windows 10 pro has to be configured as a "tablet" to make it work correctly. There is no other way to use more than one touchscreen as a Desktop computer.
If you have found another way please spill the beans! I will continue to try and make shortcuts somehow. I think that it is possible but no one has any interest in doing it.