I have a particular issue with my touchscreen and a program called Helios, which is basically a program designed so that flight simmers could send keyboard commands to the simulation by pressing a "button" on a touchscreen.
I've finally set up my pit and was configuring Helios and I couldn't understand why one button press was registering as two presses. For example, if I were to press 1, then press 2 on the ICP, I won't get 12, I would get 1122. At first, I thought it simply was an issue over the network (my touchscreen is on a slave PC and my sim is on a gaming PC) and the tools I was using was not calibrated, but when running Helios by itself on the slave PC, it was indeed registering two presses for each time I touched a button. After much experimentation and hair pulling, I changed the input from "pushed" (Helios detects press and release) into "closed" (Helios detects open and close) and that sorted it. Or so I thought.
The issue still persists and now, and I cannot use 3-way switches (AP, Master Arm, etc.) because one swipe or one touch counts as two so I can only go up or down, I can't get the switch to go to the middle. I've tried everything I can think of, recalibrating the touch screen, changing the mouse from right-handed to left-handed, changing the double-click speed settings, and so on. No go. It seems that Helios detects when I press on the switch, and then detects again when I let go, resulting in two "presses." Annoyingly, this only happens with Helios. I open up Notepad and use the touchscreen keyboard and one touch = one press.
I even made a totally new profile, nothing but a panel with buttons marked 1 and 2. Press button 1 and it should send "1", press button 2 and it should send "2". Open up Notepad to try it, press 1, then 2, and I get "1122"... so definitely something with how Helios works... My online searches have not turned up anything useful either.
I should mention that I've been using Helios for around 4 years now and this is the first time I've come across this problem. Perhaps it's a Windows 10 issue? The last time it worked properly was on a Win7 machine.
Any suggestions and help appreciated!
I've finally set up my pit and was configuring Helios and I couldn't understand why one button press was registering as two presses. For example, if I were to press 1, then press 2 on the ICP, I won't get 12, I would get 1122. At first, I thought it simply was an issue over the network (my touchscreen is on a slave PC and my sim is on a gaming PC) and the tools I was using was not calibrated, but when running Helios by itself on the slave PC, it was indeed registering two presses for each time I touched a button. After much experimentation and hair pulling, I changed the input from "pushed" (Helios detects press and release) into "closed" (Helios detects open and close) and that sorted it. Or so I thought.
The issue still persists and now, and I cannot use 3-way switches (AP, Master Arm, etc.) because one swipe or one touch counts as two so I can only go up or down, I can't get the switch to go to the middle. I've tried everything I can think of, recalibrating the touch screen, changing the mouse from right-handed to left-handed, changing the double-click speed settings, and so on. No go. It seems that Helios detects when I press on the switch, and then detects again when I let go, resulting in two "presses." Annoyingly, this only happens with Helios. I open up Notepad and use the touchscreen keyboard and one touch = one press.
I even made a totally new profile, nothing but a panel with buttons marked 1 and 2. Press button 1 and it should send "1", press button 2 and it should send "2". Open up Notepad to try it, press 1, then 2, and I get "1122"... so definitely something with how Helios works... My online searches have not turned up anything useful either.
I should mention that I've been using Helios for around 4 years now and this is the first time I've come across this problem. Perhaps it's a Windows 10 issue? The last time it worked properly was on a Win7 machine.
Any suggestions and help appreciated!
