<snip> > > I more worried about how we embrace the future of GUI design - > > touchscreens, gestures, multi-touch, etc. > > Yes, I'm sure the day will come when I'll need > "pinch to zoom" and two-finger-scroll in my apps..
I got the touchpad thing for my new Mac (rather than the Wacom tablet I usually use) and it works pretty well. I'm not *that* keen on using a mouse, generally... I get exposed to touch-screens a lot at work though, so may be biased. That's a weird thing though, if I've been doing a lot of work on our consoles, I find myself poking the screen of my regular PC quite a lot... > While walking around at Best Buy about 6 months ago, > I noticed there were a few touch screen systems. > Not sure if that's a sign of the times, or a "too early" > attempt to bring touch screen to the masses. For the cheap ones, I'm going with "too early". Here's the ARS review... http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/reviews/2010/11/worst-gadget-ever-ars-rev iews-a-99-android-tablet.ars But I've played with the iPad and it works better than I expected, and I even got a smartphone, and I'm *old-school*. > But we probably should be readying ourselves for this. Yup. It's coming our way for sure... SELEX Galileo Ltd Registered Office: Sigma House, Christopher Martin Road, Basildon, Essex SS14 3EL A company registered in England & Wales. Company no. 02426132 ******************************************************************** This email and any attachments are confidential to the intended recipient and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient please delete it from your system and notify the sender. You should not copy it or use it for any purpose nor disclose or distribute its contents to any other person. ******************************************************************** _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
