Using iPad as extended touchbuddy touchscreen monitor for CoD/IL2! Really Cool!!!

Would love to get this working, just need to find out a bit more about this touch buddy app. For starters? How does it connect to your pc? and how do I download the templates onto the iPad. It should make sense soon, but at the minute it just seems like witchcraft!

Jack

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Originally Posted by Jack Morris

seems like witchcraft!

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Originally Posted by Jack Morris

Would love to get this working, just need to find out a bit more about this touch buddy app. For starters? How does it connect to your pc? and how do I download the templates onto the iPad. It should make sense soon, but at the minute it just seems like witchcraft!

Jack

The touchbuddy app runs in a few different modes.
1. Native On machine
2. Server mode
3. Client mode

I'm using it on my pc in native mode.
The Air display app for ipad/iphone adds an additional extended screen to your PC over your wireless network you run this on both the iPad and pc to create an extended desktop.

Then you launch touchbuddy in local native mode and drag the control panel to your extended screen on the iPad.

Set CoD control keys to match the readme for Touchbuddy for the touchscreen commands.
Change mouseuse=1 in the user copy of conf.ini in 1c softclub folder to enable the mouse/touch screen to work outside the CoD game window.

Technically you could use touchbuddy on another normal monitor and just use the mouse, and you can use it in client/server mode and run the client app on a laptop or 2nd PC.

Launch a game and then just use the controls either with mouse or touchscreen.

When you use touchbuddy with the Ipad it is still running on your PC, all you have done is extended your desktop with Air Display to create an additional wireless touchscreen monitor.

I used to use touchbuddy with an old 15" touch screen hooked up to laptop for 1946. Thats why I researched how to do this with the iPad for CoD. There are far more detailed control panels available for IL2 1946 which work in exactly the same way. You can also use UDPSpeed with Devicelink on IL2 1946 to see realtime virtual gauges.

There is also work going on now by another guy here on the forums to get IL2 virtual gauges working as a native app on iPhone and iPad! Look forward to when he finally releases the beta of that!

Hope that makes it clearer. Ill try take a video tonight with the iPhone 4S in HD so you can see touchbuddy/Air Display in action on CoD.