Use extrenal touchscreen to control Touch Pro - Is it possible?

[kidmet]

Anyone know where to find the drivers? I will throw them on my phone now and then try this tonight. I have a new TP being sent to me, so I might as well try fun stuff now with this one that isn't working totally correctly.

[xxxjdoggxxx]

I have spent some time over the past few days researching this more and have not been able to locate the drivers needed. Hopefully someone out there who is smarter than me will figure out how to have usb host on the pro (if it is possible). If someone finds the files necessary to do this I would be glad to use my phone as the guinea pig. I don't have a touchscreen right now but I have other usb devices to try out. Also if anyone actually knows how the custom usb cable is made please post detailed instructions. If someone could figure this out it would save me a lot of time and money but if not I still think the pro is a great phone (finally I found the "perfect phone").

[Baffles]

The custom usb cable used is quite simple. Hook up a female USB-A port to a mini-usb male plug. You have to provide your own external 5v power to the port, however.

[JaxChris]

The multi-function cables from HTC that already work on the TP use a USB hub driver in order to support multiple devices off of the same port on the bottom.

The HTC Advantage cables are 16-pin while the ExtUSB on the TP is 6-pin/11-pin.

Another thing to remember is that if you are going to build a solution that the screen will need to be the same resolution (VGA) as the TP so that the touchscreen maps correctly to the display. If you goto EarthLCD, or other part recycler, you can probably build a 1280x800 (WXGA) screen and then get a capacitive touch panel at VGA resolution to go over the LCD panel. This would be trick though as touch input would be less accurate.

You'd have to see if the TP can output at resolutions higher than VGA over the TV-out cable.

But this is a very interesting project that I think would be worthwhile. I'm going to bookmark this one.

EDIT: Of course the first link I find when looking for ideas on this gives me a concept phone that makes me absolutely drool. Too bad it'll likely never be made:
http://www.intomobile.com/2008/06/21...-keyboard.html

[Baffles]

What multifunction cables use USB hubs? All the ones I've ever seen are straight through connections, considering sound, video, etc go over extUSB, not USB. All you have to do is split off your video and audio signals from the usb line.

[xxxjdoggxxx]

Does anyone know where to get drivers to make this work? I have spent hours looking and can't find anything.

[aggiematt1]

Any progress?

[xxxjdoggxxx]

Originally Posted by aggiematt1

Any progress?

Can't progress any further without the drivers needed. If anyone knows where to get windows ce usb drivers let me know.

[xxxjdoggxxx]

I may have found a possible solution:

USBInput

If someone has a touchscreen and the cable needed please try this out. You may need to use a powered usb hub for it to work (if it does work). I would also be interested in knowing if a mouse and keyboard would work on the pro with this app. As soon as I get the cable needed I will try a few things out.

[SkidMarx]

Wanted to let all know... we are interested in doing this also.