And sometimes it seems the device warrants a couple of thumps with a mallet?
Microsoft Lumia smart phone 📞 springs to mind Gary -----Original Message----- From: "Jim Lowman" <jmlow...@sbcglobal.net> Sent: ‎5/‎09/‎2015 7:23 AM To: "elecraft@mailman.qth.net" <elecraft@mailman.qth.net> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Touch-screen displays 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 > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to vk1zzg...@gmail.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
