On Aug 9, 2008, at 11:58 AM, Jerry Flanders wrote: > Wow. Exactly the opposite for me. I like the PowerSDR click > interface and find it completely intuitive to click tune (and mouse > wheel fine tune), etc. It has become my preferred way to operate.
Ever since I first used vi I found stateful user interfaces to be a pain. Once I found emacs I never went back. The problem is, when a button or knob changes function depending on what you have done before, you are going to get errors and confusion. The behavior of the left mouse button changes depending on what I just did with the right mouse button. The school of UI design I went to says that is a bad idea. push-on/push-off buttons are next on the bad-idea hit parade. You can't tell easily what state they are in. > In fact, in a recent RTTY contest I used the PowerSDR interface > almost exclusively to tune my K3 through a LP-Bridge&PowerSDR > panadaptor interface. (WU2X's version of PowerSDR and N8LP's Bridge > make an AWESOME panadaptor for the K3.) Sounds like it works fine for you. > Brian, I think if I had that much trouble operating PowerSDR I would > give up flying 5 ft away from another airplane at 200 MPH. Seriously! That part is easy. It is this non-intuitive stuff that is hard. :-) Maybe we should just settle on the fact that my head is in the wrong place. ;-) All kidding aside, the UI for an airplane is pretty amazingly intuitive. Yes it requires skill but you won't find the UI changing depending on state, well with the exception of some badly designed radios. :-) > A tip - leave the cursor in clicktune mode. If you ever switch it to > move a filter edge, immediately switch back as soon as the filter > change is completed. Hmmm. -- 73 de Brian, WB6RQN Brian Lloyd - brian HYPHEN wb6rqn AT lloyd DOT com _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
