Patrick, Interesting comments on your part about the inability for PSDR not able to be used with a touch screen. If you search YouTube you will find many video submissions using a touch screen with PSDR. Look at Ik3vig's many touch screen and cube3d videos.
It can be done and is being done by some hams. 73, Robert KB6QXM "Ham Radio Open Conversation" Yahoo group owner/moderator ----- Reply message ----- From: "Patrick Greenlee" <patric...@windstream.net> To: <FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz>, <manual...@juno.com> Subject: [Flexradio] =Touch-Screen_All-in-One_computer_for_Flex-3 Date: Sat, Jun 9, 2012 6:36 am I had one of those at the lab where I worked. You could highlight text using your fingers and then move it to a different position within your Wordstar document and lots of other text manipulations all of which were slower and more clumsy than using a mouse and or the control (X, C, and V) shortcuts. It was great for navigating menus and decision trees. Anyone familiar with the consoles used by Operational Specialists on Naval surface combatants will recall VABS and FABS (Variable Action Buttons and Fixed Action Buttons) and the nice trackball circa 1988 +/- which easily surpass the functionality and ease of use of a mouse and screen solution such as the PSDR. There were a "jillion" different things that could be done but not all choices were displayed all the time. Pressing a button in an array of buttons could redefine part or all of the buttons in the array. Everyone brings their prejudices to the table. The early and dedicated Mac fanatics hated to do anything not done by mouse. I suggested a word processor dedicated to their favorite brain hemisphere where the screen was divided into two parts. The upper zone would display the font to be used in your document and the lower zone would show the actual document. A great Mac interface... you just mouse up to the character you want in the top zone, click and drag a copy down into your document one at a time and NEVER HAVE TO TOUCH THE KEYBOARD!!! Loyalty to your supposed superior (read favorite) paradigm is counterproductive. Don't be a stylized wrestler, boxer, or ( insert favorite ridgid discipline martial art here) instead opt for Jeet kune do (Bruce Lee's personally developed, and successfully employed, style) PSDR is a good piece of software. Nearly anything can be improved or at least customized to a persons liking. Right now, as PSDR is, using a touch screen with it will not do much for you. The buttons, sliders, etc are not programed to interact with a touch screen and doing so is not a trivial task. The easiest way to incorporate the touch screen would make your finger into a mouse. As an experienced touch screen user I can tell you that your finger will not out mouse a mouse and you will soon tire (literally) moving your finger around the screen, especially a large screen. You might want to investigate an eye tracker as used by handicapped folks and some advanced weapon targeting systems. Looking at a button or slider is easier than holding your arm out to the screen. Patrick -----Original Message----- From: manual...@juno.com Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 4:38 PM To: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] =Touch-Screen_All-in-One_computer_for_Flex-3 Actually, I still have one of the earliest commercialized touch screen computers, the HP-150, which came out in 1983. It uses infrared emitters and detectors surrounding the screen. Still use it for fun and giggles in the shack for several DOS applications. Pete, wa2cwa On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:06:36 -0700 "=?utf-8?B?Um9iZXJ0IENvc3RhLCBLQjZRWE0=?=" <kb6...@yahoo.com> writes: > From what I am hearing is that touch screens are not mainstream as > yet. Maybe with the release of Windows 8 in a few months. > > 73, > Robert > KB6QXM > "Ham Radio Open Conversation" > Yahoo group owner/moderator > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/ ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2433/5056 - Release Date: 06/08/12 _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/ _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
