Pen cannot raise hidden task bar

[pax]

I am a new user, so apologies if I am missing something obvious.

When I set "auto hide the task bar", which I need for displaying OpenOffice presentations for example, I find I am unable to raise the task bar using the pen. I can do it with touch, but hovering or touching the pen at the bottom of the screen fails to raise it. Occasionally I even have problems with raising the bar using touch, meaning I end up using the windows key - a very kludgy business.

Is it possible this is just a calibration issue, where the pen is failing to register close enough to the bottom of the screen? Any other ideas?

[CF77]

The task bar is expecting the mouse or pen at first 3 -5 pixels. Calibration to closer to the edge would be better.

[pax]

Ok, looks like a bad calibration. Removing calibration data fixed it. Is there a better way to calibrate the pen than using the built-in tool?

[lblb]

Hey pax,

I can't advise you on calibrating your pen (but if you use the alternate search you will find a few discussions on that subject) but maybe you'll be interested in the small AutoHotkey program that I use to show/hide the Windows taskbar in one click. See two posts below.

[anguscoleman]

hi, ibib. your mediafire link is expired. i'd like to try your program, since the function 'self-hide' seems not to work animore on my ep121. can u upload it again, please? many thanks

angelo

[lblb]

Hey Angelo,

Try the files in the zip file in the following link:
Toggle_Taskbar.zip

I haven't updated my post above because there weren't any comments about it but the files in this new link are much simpler: just download and double-click!
I've included two different files: the first one toggles Windows taskbar autohide on and off. This is probably what you meant. You may also want to try the second one: it completely hide/unhides the taskbar.
Note that I've only tested these on my Windows 7 64bits laptop (and I don't have my ep121 close by to test them right now).

Cheers!

[anguscoleman]

thank you very much, ibib. actually i am very interested in the hide/unhide button, 'coz i find the autohide function very annoying. i will let you knw how it functions as soon as tested it

[anguscoleman]

ibib, they seem to work both very well. congrats. and thank you again!

[lblb]

Cool. Glad these can be helpful.