On vintage radios, when you flip a switch or turn a knob, you can be
fairly certain of the result.
One problem that I have with touchscreens, with some regularity, is that
of certainty that the touch accomplished the intended task.
Sometimes I barely graze an icon with my finger, and other times I
almost have to stand on it, or touch it repeatedly, to achieve results.
73 de Jim - AD6CW
On 9/3/2015 11:28 PM, Bill Frantz wrote:
What I have noticed over the years is that the UI hardware has gotten
worse. Keyboards are the most obvious example. I am a good touch
typist. When I started to learn CW (for the third time), I decided to
use a keyboard rather than trying to write with a pencil, since I can
type considerably faster than I can write. I quickly discovered that
the keyboard on my Mac laptop wasn't good enough for fast typing. I
bought a HP keyboard which isn't as good as the old IBM Selectric
keyboards, but is better than the Mac keyboard. All the touch screen
keyboards I have used have been much worse than either of these two
keyboards.
If you need tactile feedback, touch screens don't have any.
For those who want to experiment with touch screens and the
K3/K3s/KX3, a programming project will let you use the programming
interface to the radios and a touch screen computer to prototype this
kind of interface. Perhaps Tom's (va2fsq) Win4K3Suite on a touch
screen computer would do the job without programming yourself.
73 Bill AE6JV
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