[Elecraft] Touch-screen displays

[Jim Lowman]

On vintage radios, when you flip a switch or turn a knob, you can be 
fairly certain of the result.

One problem that I have with touchscreens, with some regularity, is that 
of certainty that the touch accomplished the intended task.
Sometimes I barely graze an icon with my finger, and other times I 
almost have to stand on it, or touch it repeatedly, to achieve results.

73 de Jim - AD6CW

On 9/3/2015 11:28 PM, Bill Frantz wrote:
> What I have noticed over the years is that the UI hardware has gotten 
> worse. Keyboards are the most obvious example. I am a good touch 
> typist. When I started to learn CW (for the third time), I decided to 
> use a keyboard rather than trying to write with a pencil, since I can 
> type considerably faster than I can write. I quickly discovered that 
> the keyboard on my Mac laptop wasn't good enough for fast typing. I 
> bought a HP keyboard which isn't as good as the old IBM Selectric 
> keyboards, but is better than the Mac keyboard. All the touch screen 
> keyboards I have used have been much worse than either of these two 
> keyboards.
>
> If you need tactile feedback, touch screens don't have any.
>
> For those who want to experiment with touch screens and the 
> K3/K3s/KX3, a programming project will let you use the programming 
> interface to the radios and a touch screen computer to prototype this 
> kind of interface. Perhaps Tom's (va2fsq) Win4K3Suite on a touch 
> screen computer would do the job without programming yourself.
>
> 73 Bill AE6JV
>