Component: Touch Screen (FT6X06) (Graphical Library): Difference between revisions

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Author	Matrix Ltd
Version	2.0
Category	Graphical Library

Touch Screen (FT6X06) component

Low level routines for controlling or interacting with the FT6X06 touch screen controller IC found on a lot of common capacitive touch screen products. Also compatible with FT6x36 touch screen controller IC.

Version information

Library Version, Component Version, Date, Author, Info
11, 1.0, 26-07-24, BR, Removed ghost greay square connection line

Detailed description

No detailed description exists yet for this component

Examples

An example of how to sample read a capacitive touch display overlay using the component.

FT6X06 Demo

Macro reference

Initialise

	Initialise
Activates the SPI peripheral and claims control over the I/O pins.
- VOID	Return

ReadCoord

	ReadCoord
Reads a coordinate returned from the Sample Sensor macro. Coordinate is scaled to the X/Y Pixel bounds specified.
- BYTE	Coordinate
0 = X, 1 = Y, 2 = Pressure
- BYTE	Index
Touch Index Range: 0 - 1
- UINT	Return

SampleSensor

	SampleSensor
Reads the touch controller and returns true if there is currently a touch in progress. The touch coordinates can be read using the ReadCoord macro. Return 0 = No Touch, 1 = Single touch detected, 2 = Two touch points detected
- BYTE	Return

SetOrientation

	SetOrientation
Allows the orientation to be overridden.
- BYTE	Orientation
Range: 0 - 3
- VOID	Return

Property reference

	Properties
	LinkTo

	Bus Settings
	Channel
Channel selection
	Baud Select
Baud rate option selector
	Baud Rate
Baud rate to be used
	Stop Delay
On older microcontroller devices there is a potential for the I2C hardware channel to lock up if there is not a 10ms delay between an I2C stop event and the next I2C start event. Most modern microcontrollers will not have a problem so this property can be disabled to speed up the I2C communications.
	Connections
	SDA
Pin used for SDA (data signal)
	SCL
Pin used for SCL (clock signal)
	Configuration
	Apply Scaling

	X Pixel

	Y Pixel

	Flip X

	Flip Y

	Simulation
	Label
Label used to identify the component on the panel.
	Enable Interrupt

	Interrupt Macro
Macro called when the simulated display fires an interrupt.
	Simulate Comms
Allows the I2C communications to be simulated and piped through an API to real world hardware.

Component Source Code

Please click here to download the component source project: FC_Comp_Source_TouchScreen_FT6X36.fcfx

Please click here to view the component source code (Beta): FC_Comp_Source_TouchScreen_FT6X36.fcfx

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