In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, matthiasm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The last attempt was basically a Dial, but one could rotate it by > simply making circular motions with the mouse. The ide was, that you > would not have to make sure that the mouse stayed inside the Dial. You > only had to hit a tiny dial to start the motion and then do the > gesture. Again, with a pen in absolute position mode, that does not > fly well (it could be solved though). Uhm, dials... The only dial that I've ever found useful was the "real" one in the "dials and button box" ;). But maybe things change with a pen.. > Yes, some for me. This particular person draws with a pen *and* even > does 3D modelling with it. Amazing. For CAD, I prefer the 16-button > "puck" ;-) > > <http://gis.esri.com/library/userconf/proc01/professional/papers/pap894/p08943 > .jpg > > I've used one of those. Great for data entry for 2d models, but for normal usage they take too much space on the table. I suspect this is alleviated if you take one of those with the _actual_ lcd beneath it (awesome), but then again I doubt this is really "comfy" to use while sitting. When I need to do some UI for myself, I use a mouse on one hand and a half keyboard on the other (a _completely_ split keyboard, whose end I strapped to the armchair). This essentially makes for a "60" button mouse, while almost never using the mouse buttons. I've gone as far as using only a subset of the keys, namely the home row and the row above it, and use chording instead. I tried to minimize pointer precision requirements to be able to use a trackpad (so that I could strap it to the other armchair), but so far with no great success. Very small movements suck with a trackball, and long ones tend to be imprecise due to the necessity of "rolling" the ball. _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
