This tag is for questions about development on the Microsoft Surface Pro - a touchscreen Windows PC. General software issues not directly related to programming or programming tools should be directed to Super User instead.
Questions tagged [surface-pro]
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Get Height of Surface Pro 3 on web page
I have a monitor with 1920x1080 resolution for my laptop and a Surface Pro 3 with 1920x1280 resolution. I am developing a web page designed for full-screen viewing on 1920x1080 and 1920x1280 displays.
I have confirmed the settings for each display…
user5398447
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How to detect screen orientation change? - JavaFX on Microsoft Surface
I am writing a JavaFX application for Microsoft Surface and I am looking for a way to detect a screen orientation change when rotating the device from portrait to landscape and vice versa. The current method I am using to detect the screen…

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Detect camera rotation on Microsoft Surface?
Is there a reliable way to determine if a camera is rotated on the Microsoft Surface?
Basically, I want to know if a specific camera is built into the device (as it will then rotate with the device), is there a way to query this?
My problem is that…

monoceres
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Can't get correct values for touch.rotationAngle or touch.force on Surface Pro 4
I am testing a project on my Surface Pro 4 and I am using the Touch interface in javascript. According to MDN, the rotationAngle and force properties should return [0 - 90] and [0.0 - 1.0] respectively.
But no matter how I touch the display, I get…

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Psychopy on Surface Pro 6: Can touchscreen be used to press AND hold a button similar to a mouse click?
SPECS:
Using PsychoPy v1.90.3
Window 10 Pro 6 running Windows 10
BACKGROUND:
I am programming a touchscreen task to use with children (reference image linked below). In the task, children need to press and hold the red 'home' button for 1.5…

Jyonehir
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C# Webview2 control on a Microsoft Surface Pro
We have a Windows Forms application where we recently updated the old WebBrowser control to Webview2 - version 1.0.961.33. Everything works great except on Microsoft Surface Pro. The error we get is:
An attempt was made to load a program with an…

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Sending picture from my phone (iOS) to Surface Pro (Windows 10) via BLE
I am trying to send picture from my phone (iOS) to Surface Pro (Windows 10) via BLE. After successfully establishing the connection, I get some detailed peripheral information.
i have two question :
which service and characteristics is responsible…

Nizar ELHRAIECH
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How to emulate Surface Pro 4 in browser
I have a user who is using my web app on a Surface Pro 4. The app doesn't render very well. The best way I can describe it is that it appears the browser window has been resized to a small size and it's trying to bunch stuff up. However, I believe…

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obtaining the infra red camera frame in a surface pro
Info seems to be scarse, hoping someone can point me to a sdk, libary, code to get the infra frame from the hello camera in the surface pro.
Does opencv support this?
More info the camera is Intel AVStream Camera 2500 as listed in the device…

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Why is the ability to publish not available in VS 2017 on new surface pro
Just setup new surface pro. Moved from Laptop. I installed VS 2017 (even tried 2019) and loaded project from old laptop. Made changes and went to Publish new install and getting 'The publish components are not available. You need to reinstall Visual…

Tom
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Telerik RadRibbonView pops up RadRibbonTab nested objects to the left in Surface Pro
Got an interesting issue that only affects the code on a Surface Pro 3. When running a telerik control for a RadRibbonView and then having it minimized the popup will open to the very left of the screen. This behavior does not happen on a desktop…

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Buttons embedded in Excel sheet becoming pixellated after click on Surface Pro 4
I have a workbook which works with lots of VBA and a custom add-in to create reports for customers. The workbook has a series of buttons on the front sheet, which control the operation of the report "app":
This is mostly deployed on Surface Pro 3s…

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Surface pro 9 SQ3 Hyper-V not booting any ISO
I am trying to get CentOS booted in Hyper-V on my SP9 SQ3. No matter what I do, it ends up like this.
Even the quick create for Ubuntu 22 or Windows gives me this same error.
I cannot choose Gen 1, so it is all Gen 2.
These are my settings.
Any…

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Clonezilla script fails: Unable to find target hard drive
I have saved a disk to an image.
I can restore this image to a new drive when I use the manual approach where Clonezilla asks all these questions.
I answer them using the Beginner Mode.
I don't change anything or do anything fancy.
Now I am trying…

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How to compile and run C on a Surface Pro X?
I'd like to program some Ansi-C on a Surface Pro X. On my Computer I just set up VS Code as an editor and installed Msys2 which comes with the GCC. But the same won't work on the Surface Pro X, cause if the processor architecture as I understand…

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