Yep, thanks Phil...I should clarify, at least for David's sake, that when I said "some equivalent of knob turning" I did not mean that literally...I meant some appropriate means of sweeping along a band like we would do if we were turning a knob. An appropriate gesture in the iOS gesture universe is perfectly fine (and what I really had in mind). ;-)
Also, this seems to be diverging from the original thread, so I've taken the liberty to change the subject so those not interested can skip it if they want to. (And finally as a quick, seriously OT comment for those who use MACs, I just picked up a new MacBook Air with Lion...WOW what a little screamer! It just about runs circles around my 3 Year old top-of-the-line iMac which is no slouch in it's own right. Holy smokes!) 73 & Aloha, Dave AH6TD On Aug 25, 2011, at 3:42 PM, Phil Hystad wrote: > Adding on to the discussion... > > For an iPad app I hope there are no knobs! iPad is all about touch gestures. > Touch finger sweeps for tuning should work great. I can see one use of a > knob if it has one of those little finger depressions on it and you can then > use touch to "spin" the knob around. > > Shift and width adjustments can be done using the pinch motion touch gesture. > Of course, all other buttons and and switches are touch as well. > > As far as browsing memories idea mentioned below, one way to do this is to do > a full page sweep by flicking a page aside and bringing up a new page. Each > page is the same basic interface for the KX3 but each new page is a different > setup with memories, modes, and so on. > > Unfortunately, there are still a number of ipad apps that are still in the > old mouse & keyboard mode of interaction. The ipad is best used with touch > of course so as much of the touch gesture world that is possible should be > used where it fits. As far as going over board though -- I think Lion went a > little overboard with its touch gestures. Very powerful but so many that I > can't remember them all. Especially when the gesture is two-figured sweeps > versus 3-finger sweeps. Can't remember which is which most of the time. > Finally though on Lion I am used to the new way of scrolling -- I have been > retrained to scroll the page instead of scrolling the scroll bar -- for you > non Lion people, the movement is in opposite directions. > > 73, phil, K7PEH > Two iMacs, Two Mac Book Pro laptops, Two iPhones, one iPad (xyl doesn't want > one). > > > On Aug 25, 2011, at 6:14 PM, David Herring wrote: > >> I can see using such an app. >> >> The things that I would want to see initially in such a program would be: >> >> Tuning, both by some equivalent of knob turning and by direct entry >> AF & RF gain adjustments >> shift & width adjustments >> mode switching >> antenna switching & ATU control >> Memory access and maybe even memory management. No dig intended on other >> memory managers here, I just think it would be nice for the app to be a >> "one-stop" affair. Would like to browse the memories in order to select >> what I want to tune to, and then if I see something wrong, would like to >> edit it in the moment. >> >> As you can see, my needs in such a thing are basic. Anything beyond what >> I've listed here would be great, but not at the expense of these 6 core >> things. Do these core things *really* well, and you'll have a winner, IMHO. >> >> 73 & Aloha, >> Dave AH6TD >> >> >> On Aug 25, 2011, at 11:03 AM, David Fleming wrote: >> >>> --- Wayne wrote: >>> >>>> I'm picturing control via smart phones, netbooks, and >>>> iPads. >>> >>> I've done some preliminary design work on a K3 remote control app for iOS >>> (iPhone/iPad). I'm curious if there is much demand for such an app? And if >>> so, what features/functionality would be most desirable? >>> >>> David, W4SMT >>> >>> >>> ______________________________________________________________ >>> Elecraft mailing list >>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >>> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >>> >>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
