I've just tripped across something that many of you may find interesting. I bought an Acer FT220 touchscreen monitor to match with my Windows 7 Pro laptop and run ShowXpress. No news there...the display works fine with the laptop, as expected. But it's Windows, ya know? I'm a Mac guy, and I avoid Windows computers as much as I can. So, once I confirmed all was good with my new monitor attached to the PC laptop, I thought I'd take a chance and try it with my MacBook Pro.
Hallelujah, pass the bacon! It works!!! Albeit, there are a couple niggles, but it works! Who knew? I've read several articles about how Macs and OSX don't support touchscreen monitors. Apparently, they didn't tell Acer about this. Okay, here are the niggles...but they're very minor:
1. While the ShowX Live buttons all work nearly instantly with Windows, Macro buttons take about a second to engage with the Mac. Regular scene buttons engage the same as Windows. It's just the Macro buttons that are slightly slower.
2. The touchscreen only works when you move the cursor arrow onto it. I haven't tried all combinations of connections; I'm set up with the MacBook as a master and the Acer as an extension. But that's how it's reacting as I have it set up.
Other than that, it's working! Even tap+drag works on the master faders to the right. Tap Tempo works for Manual BPM scenes. I can't describe how tickled I am right now. More bacon, please!!!