Survex/Aven on Windows 7 tablet

[HughStL]

Hi Olly,

I'd used 1.2.7b because it had fewer problems than 1.2.11...!!

Downloaded 1.2.11 again and installed.... still no legend on the scale 
bar, same difficulty with selecting station points and no means of 
'escaping' the measuring line  (menu option greyed out).  The thing with 
1.2.11 is it throws up an error EVERY time you exit Aven. Also I've 
found that after processing a file and getting a new aven file, double 
clicking on said Aven file launches Aven but Aven crashes (with same 
error message) before displaying anything.

"aven.exe has stopped working
A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will 
close the program and notify you if a solution is available."

1.2.7b is more stable, despite its faults/omissions.

Hugh


On 03/04/2014 10:56, Olly Betts wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 12:17:34PM +0100, HughStL wrote:
>> Just wondered if anyone used Survex on a tablet?
>> I'm trying v1.2.7b out on a Windows 7 powered Dell Latitude ST (2gb
>> RAM) with semi mixed results. Some comments for developers:
> Can you test with 1.2.11?  There's been a lot of changes since 1.2.7b,
> and it's not really useful to try to chase down bugs which may have
> already been fixed.
>
>> 2. virtually impossible to select station points, even with pretty
>> accurate stylus (Dell Latitude ST has proper digitising screen with
>> active stylus, not one of those big-blob Android/iPad pens)
> Currently it's treated as a click if the mouse is at the same position
> when the mouse button is pressed and released, and that position has to
> be at most 5 pixels from a station - I wonder which of these is the
> issue.
>
> If you concentrate on not moving the stylus horizontally, does that seem
> more successful than if you focus on touching it as close to the station
> as you can?
>
> Cheers,
>      Olly
>