Hi, I agree the 7300 leaves a lot to be wanted for the touch screen. It's not the most intuitive. I too had to look in the manual to figure out how to change bands! On the other hand, the IC-7610 is much more intuitive most likely due to increased real-estate of the display. The menus for example are very easy to get used to. The key point, is that the most used functions are buttons, but the touch screen makes things like the menus very easy to use. One of my pet peeves of the all in one radios is that the spectrum screens are pretty poor in resolution. I have yet to see any hardware panadapter that has the display quality of the P3. 73 Tom
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Dave New, N8SBE Sent: March 25, 2019 4:21 PM To: Wayne Burdick <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K4? I agree. The radios I've seen with touch screens are a real compromise in usability. Either the screen is too small to be useful, or it is so big that many hard controls are sacrificed to avoid making the front panel too large. The worst are the PC-based interfaces, where all hard controls are eliminated. The IC-7300 is a case in point. When I first encountered one, I gave up trying to figure out how to change bands, and had to ask the owner. Of course, you just touch the MHz digit on the display! Obvious, I suppose, in retrospect. The problem with touch displays is similar to 'hidden' mouse movements on PCs. Unless you've read the manual or had someone show you, it is entirely not obvious how to do cool things with the mouse. How many folks know that on Windows 7/10 if you drag a window to the right or left side of the screen, that it will magically re-size to fill just the right-half or the left-half of the screen? Makes it super simple to place two instances of the file explorer side-by-side to assist in doing drag 'n drop operations between windows. How many know that if you drag the winnow top edge (as in a resize operation) to the top of the screen it will automatically fill the screen top to bottom? And if you subsequently drag it off the top, the window will snap back to its original size and position? How many know that if you grab a window title bar, and shake the mouse, that all other windows will minimize? And if you shake the window again, they all come back? I'd bet that at least some of you just learned something about your PC that you didn't know before. There is a least another dozen cool things (like using Ctl-Windows-right or -left arrow on Windows 10 to access multiple desktops of windows). So, how do you implement cool touch- or mouse-movements without leaving novice users in the dust? That's the $64,000 question. 73, --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
