ActivPanels don't touch running Jolly Phonics

[gerardsweeney]

We've encountered a shiny new problem.

 

The schools have moved to Jolly Learning Phonics for Whiteboard online - moving away from the old Flash based V3.

 

When running that in Edge/Chrome, ActivPanels can't interact with the application running inside the browser.

AB2 boards work fine.

 

Proving annoying for teachers, who have to jump back and forward to the mouse to click on the relevant button in the application.

 

Any suggestions?

[phillyrovers]

Hi gerardsweeney,

Without me getting a look at the actual activities they post I will be unable to verify what IM about to say, but I highly suspect that the developers of that website have NOT configured the website to listen for 'touch' events.

An AB2 board is essentially another mouse, and it reports into Windows as a mouse.

A ActivPanel is a touch device and reports its touch inputs as touch inputs (Windows has the capability to handle each type of input differently). Depending on the type of ActivPanel you have you may be able to switch the 'pen' (which would default as another type of input (stylus), to be a 'mouse' using ActivManager.

 

But the core of the issue is likely that the developers of the website need to include 'touch' inputs.

 

So I suso

[gerardsweeney]

Ho ho...

 

It's the simple things. Just use the pen supplied with the panel. It gets treated as a mouse click.