[Elecraft] K4?

[Tom]

Hi,
I agree the 7300 leaves a lot to be wanted for the touch screen.  It's not
the most intuitive.  I too had to look in the manual to figure out how to
change bands!
On the other hand, the IC-7610 is much more intuitive most likely due to
increased real-estate of the display.  The menus for example are very easy
to get used to.  The key point, is that the most used functions are buttons,
but the touch screen makes things like the menus very easy to use.
One of my pet peeves of the all in one radios is that the spectrum screens
are pretty poor in resolution.  I have yet to see any hardware panadapter
that has the display quality of the P3.
73 Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net <elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On
Behalf Of Dave New, N8SBE
Sent: March 25, 2019 4:21 PM
To: Wayne Burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com>; Elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K4?

I agree.

The radios I've seen with touch screens are a real compromise in usability.
Either the screen is too small to be useful, or it is so big that many hard
controls are sacrificed to avoid making the front panel too large. The worst
are the PC-based interfaces, where all hard controls are eliminated.

The IC-7300 is a case in point. When I first encountered one, I gave up
trying to figure out how to change bands, and had to ask the owner. Of
course, you just touch the MHz digit on the display! Obvious, I suppose, in
retrospect.

The problem with touch displays is similar to 'hidden' mouse movements on
PCs. Unless you've read the manual or had someone show you, it is entirely
not obvious how to do cool things with the mouse.

How many folks know that on Windows 7/10 if you drag a window to the right
or left side of the screen, that it will magically re-size to fill just the
right-half or the left-half of the screen? Makes it super simple to place
two instances of the file explorer side-by-side to assist in doing drag 'n
drop operations between windows.
How many know that if you drag the winnow top edge (as in a resize
operation) to the top of the screen it will automatically fill the screen
top to bottom? And if you subsequently drag it off the top, the window will
snap back to its original size and position?
How many know that if you grab a window title bar, and shake the mouse, that
all other windows will minimize? And if you shake the window again, they all
come back?

I'd bet that at least some of you just learned something about your PC that
you didn't know before. There is a least another dozen cool things (like
using Ctl-Windows-right or -left arrow on Windows 10 to access multiple
desktops of windows).

So, how do you implement cool touch- or mouse-movements without leaving
novice users in the dust?

That's the $64,000 question.

73,



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