I think we're being clear on this, but to emphasize: the touchpad (on the keyboard) and the touch screen are two different devices with vastly different experiences. The touchpad works like a mouse and most regular users are fairly proficient with it. The touch screen is a newer UI, and some people pick it up and some struggle.
I had a reminder just this week during a client meeting when I showed them how to resize forms (we're using the mwresize utility). "All they had to do" using the touchpad was grab the lower right corner, click-and-drag, or optionally, hit a little 6x6 pixel widget in the lower right corner with their right mouse button to get a context menu. The users struggled mightily. Many didn't have the fine motor control, and few could hit either mouse button without moving the pointer. So, lesson learned again: it's always worth sitting down with real users and watching them struggle with the UI you feel is so elegant. On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Jack Skelley <[email protected]> wrote: > Bryant: > Nothing! > I have VFP6 and 9 apps running on the tablets. > The Surface 2 optional keyboard has a touchpad which works only ok. I use a > wireless mouse with it in its USB 3 port which makes it run great. > Only thing different from a Win7 box to a Win 8.1 box was some of the VFP6 > apps needed to run as the administrator even though the user is the > administrator. > I have an app I wrote to tabulate ice time of the players during a game which > was written in VFP 9 SP2 and originally run on a XP box designed for a touch > screen. AT runtime there are 80+ buttons, checkboxes and option buttons on > the main form. The migration to Win 7 then to Win 8.1 was transparent to the > user and has never had an issue. > Best regards > Jack Skelley > > ________________________________________ > From: ProfoxTech [[email protected]] on behalf of Bryant > [[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2015 4:49 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: VFP on a tablet > > Did you have to do anything different to make buttons work on the touch > screen? > > Bryant Minard > Medford Software House > > Sent from my iPad > >> On Jul 1, 2015, at 4:28 PM, Jack Skelley <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Yes it does! >> I run VFP apps on a Surface 2 and a Winbook with zero issues. >> Jack >> >> ________________________________________ >> From: ProfoxTech [[email protected]] on behalf of Bryant >> [[email protected]] >> Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2015 3:59 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: VFP on a tablet >> >> Can someone tell me if VFP runtime can run on a Windows 8 tablet >> >> Bryant Minard >> Medford Software House >> >> Sent from my iPad >> [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CACW6n4tF=hnwxvrkbg9ad6bgu7jtw6oc5syf9otlasu3cc+...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
