[Elecraft] K4?

[Doug Person]

Reading the manual in order to learn how to use a complex radio 
shouldn't be an obstacle.

I'm not familiar with "Hidden mouse moves" in Windows. There are 3 
buttons and a scroll wheel. They each  have very well-defined functions.

Doug -- KJ0F

On 3/25/2019 3:21 PM, Dave New, N8SBE wrote:
> 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,
>
> -- Dave, N8SBE
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K4?
> From: Wayne Burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com>
> Date: Mon, March 25, 2019 12:56 pm
> To: Bert <ve3nr at bell.net>
> Cc: Elecraft Reflector <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
>
> The trick is to provide a full complement of "hard" controls for
> functions accessed most frequently, "in the heat of battle," as they
> say, while leveraging the touch screen for its versatility.
>
> Touchable fields can be added as a backup/shortcut to hard controls. A
> touch screen inherently offers immediate context-sensitive feedback and
> in many cases reduced time/effort. Examples include signal selection,
> zooming, etc. Zooming should also be done right, by resampling at
> narrower resolution -- is shouldn't just be a "blow-up" of the original
> pixels, as implemented on some existing radios.
>
> Ultimately, get what you pay for. That said, current prices for
> "high-end" super-radios are ridiculous; they're two to four times higher
> than necessary. Not only that, they're not configurable or upgradeable.
> Very un-Elecraft like.
>
> Wayne
> N6KR
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73 de Doug -- KJ0F