When Elecraft adds mouse support to the P3SVGA, please use the scroll wheel for fine tuning after the click, as one does on an SDR. You're can almost never tune in someone perfectly just by clicking, and you shouldn't need two hands to tune in a station, one on the VFO knob, and one on the mouse.
A mouse driver for the P3SVGA could be very simplified. It does NOT have to work like a mouse on a PC. Like the P3 VFO "markers," all a mouse needs to support is *horizontal movement* of a single vertical line when you move the mouse, not a fancy mouse pointer that goes up and down. A vertical line is sufficient. We only need to click on signals on the waterfall, not "buttons" or "menus". This is what I'm expecting to see from the P3SVGA mouse support: Left click: Move VFO A to clicked freq. Right click: Move VFO B to clicked freq. (for DX split pileups) Scroll Wheel: Fine tune VFO A, B, or "last-clicked" (user option) Scroll Wheel Up = move VFO up in frequency Scroll Wheel Down = move VFO down in frequency I understand that modern Icom radios (IC-7610, IC-7851) already support click-to-tune on their waterfall displays using a USB mouse or touch-screen tap, but they ignore the scroll wheel completely, making them much less useful. Elecraft can and should do better. If Elecraft needs to "monetize" this to make it happen, *I would gladly pay $50 for a P3 firmware upgrade that provides P3SVGA mouse support.* Next best would be *P3SVGA K-POD support*, K-POD connected to P3SVGA via USB, used instead of the tiny P3 knob and awkward knob push, but maybe that's not feasible due to hardware limitations. 73, Bob, N6TV ______________________________________________________________ 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
