Thank you. My thinkpad has one of those track points. It is only that scroll wheel that I miss. otherwise the apart from the index finger, everything else is in ease. And you are right about exercises. I think I should do something about that.
:-) Shahab. -------- Shahab Sanjari (sanjariathrzdottu-darmstadtdotde) On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, Samuel A. Falvo II wrote: > On Saturday 26 June 2004 03:53 pm, Shahab Sanjari wrote: > > Is there anyone there who uses a trackball as a pointing device at > > work? For more than 2 months, my wrist became really uncomfortable and > > it started to ache after a few hours of working with mouse. Recently > > it is aching all the time, and since yesterday, I am keeping it warm > > with a bandage. > > Shahab, I strongly advise you to perform regular wrist stretching > exercises if this is the case, in addition to whatever other measures > you are taking to mitigate this problem. I have very sensitive wrists > as well, and as a practicer of Aikido and formerly of Yoga, I am aware > of some wrist stretches that, at least for me, helps out a great deal. > > Note that stretching is no substitute for good ergonomics; but it does > help relieve some of the pain and stress in the wrist. I stretch > regularly, sometimes multiple times per day on particularly bad days. > > > are still not precise enough, I still need practice. Is there anyone > > who has come back to mouse after using a trackball and having lost the > > hope of making precise movement with it? > > I think it's primarily due to the size of the thumb-driven trackballs. > They're so small that even the slightest muscular jerk will result in > significantly large enough mouse movements to me annoying. If they made > thumb-trackballs with larger sphere sizes, I think that might be useful, > but alas, they do not. :( > > I used to be a very, very good aim with an Alps Glidepoint (the > capacitive, flat, trackball-like things you find almost universally on > most laptops today). While it does take some practice to get good at > it, I have been very happy overall with them. I only wished that they > made it easier to drag-n-drop with that design. > > Another pointing device that I got *very* good results with was the IBM > Trackpoint (not to be confused with the Glidepoint). This device was > basically a rubber pencil eraser coupled to a four-way pressure > transducer -- thus, essentially a joystick. The only disadvantage to it > was that it appeared between the G and H keys (assuming standard QWERTY > layout), which sometimes interfered with touch-typing. If only they > produced trackpoints in large numbers external to the keyboard... > > -- > Samuel A. Falvo II >
