4 Jun
2013
4 Jun
'13
10:25 a.m.
On 06/04/2013 12:25 PM, Mouse wrote:
First idea: I'm sorry, but I'd spend all day adjusting my zoom level.
Picture routing lines all over a board.
Second idea: That sounds like it might have potential. Let's see if
someone (you?) adds it to a windowing system somewhere. If it appears,
I will try it.
The mouse
thing will be an issue. Touch devices currently offer
nowhere near the precision positioning required for (say) drawing
schematics and layout out PC boards. [...]
When that problem is solved, then [...]. But
there is no progress
currently being made to solve it, nothing on the drawing boards to
address it (and no, the free-space gesture stuff doesn't even get
close)...not even any IDEAS on how to address it.
Ideas there are. Heck, I've got two, or maybe three, and that's with
maybe a minute of thought. (One: zoom in with a snap-to grid
corresponding to whatever precision is needed; two: displace the touch
point from the active point so that the user can see precisely where is
being addressed; three: scale down, moving the hotspot by less than the
point-of-touch - a bit like zoom, only reversed. Probably some
combination would be best.) Progress currently being made? What reason do you
have to think you
would necessarily be aware of any such progress?
Because this is my profession.
For all you know I
could be making such progress right now. (I'm not, but all it would
take would be for me to get documented touchscreen hardware - something
you wouldn't necessarily hear about.)
Of course. But if you keep it a secret, well, that helps nobody.
What I really think it will take is for someone to
completely redesign
the software - schematic capture and board layout, in your example -
for a touchscreen interface, rather than trying to perver^Wadapt
mouse-based software for touchscreen use.
That's been talked about for years, and has actually been done a few
times. We keep going back to mice for a reason. ;)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA