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Touch screen monitor and roll20

I would like to use Roll20 for some games that I will be hosting at my apartment. I thought it would be nice to lay a touch screen monitor flat on the table and use it just like a battle mat. We would use the touchscreen monitor just like a hex/square battle map but it would be very nice to simply load up dungeons/maps and be able to use dynamic lighting. The plan was to simply have the players use the tokens on the screen with their finger by selecting and dragging the token to the correct position just like you would with a mouse. However, I am having trouble getting this to work. I can select the tokens by tapping them, but when I tap and drag it just tries to move the map or change tabs on the browser. I cannot move the tokens or get other features such as the ruler to work with the touchscreen monitor. Does anyone have any ideas to fix this? Thanks.
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Pat S.
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Double check that you have your map on the map layer and your tokens are on the token layer so that you only interact with the tokens on the appropiate layer without affecting the map.
Thanks for the response Pat. I should have chosen my words better. The map is not being selected and being moved, it was rather that my browser was moving my perspective on the map, not the map itself moving. The tokens are on the token layer and the map is on the map layer.
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Pat S.
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Not really meaning to be punny but touch screens use has been a touchy subject to work with. :D Ok back to being serious, Have you gone to the&nbsp; tablet forum and skimmed various posts? I suspect you are using windows ( you never said what OS you are using) but there is some info scattered in there about touch screens. Give me a short while as I go looking through the archives for something similar to what you have posted and see if there is any help there. If I can't find anything to help you with, I will move your thread to the bug forum and we can start a troubleshooting step thru. Ok found a thread or few. <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/1364282/slug%7D" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/1364282/slug%7D</a> (no solution shown just a discussion) <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/1305039/slug%7D" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/1305039/slug%7D</a> (a couple suggestions but they were for a windows tablet not a touch screen monitor)
Looks like one of the people in those threads had some luck trying a different browser other than chrome (which I am using with Windows 10). I will try a few different browsers and see if that helps.
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Pat S.
Forum Champion
Sheet Author
Give it a shot ( it is one of the steps of the troubleshooting guide also) and post your results here. If we need to I can start the full troubleshooting steps.
I installed Firefox and it seem to be working just fine. I can now move the tokens around with the touch screen. Honestly, I should have tried that before posting, but glad that it works : ). Thanks.
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Pat S.
Forum Champion
Sheet Author
I'm glad it all worked out for you and you can get your gaming on. I'm going to close this thread since your problem has been resolved but do not hesistate to make a new post if you have a question or need help.