Windows 10 tablet

[Graham Mullan]

I have cheerfully run Survex on Windows 8, 8.1 and 10 on Samsung and Microsoft tablets. Admittedly the Microsoft Surface Pro2 & Pro4 I use have screens that work well with a stylus rather than needing a fat finger and have perfectly good detachable keyboards as well, but there is nothing wrong with the underlying workings of the program.

Graham

-----Original Message-----
From: Survex [mailto:survex-bounces at survex.com] On Behalf Of Olly Betts
Sent: 01 March 2017 21:04
To: HughStL <hugh at stlawrence.free-online.co.uk>
Cc: survex at survex.com
Subject: Re: Windows 10 tablet

On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 08:34:06PM +0000, HughStL wrote:
> Sorry if I didn't give feedback, but I didn't know the issues had been 
> addressed! I kind of shelved the tablet idea, just reckoning it wasn't 
> 'ready' yet.  A few years on and maybe it is?  Not got a Win10 tablet 
> at the moment, but if anyone else reported stable use on one I might consider it.

FWIW, the changes were (maybe some other I missed too):

1.2.13:

* aven: Increase the threshold for how close the pointer needs to be to a
  station from 5 pixels to 7 to try to help touchscreen users.  Reported by
  Hugh St Lawrence.

* aven: Add "fat finger" mode, toggled by pressing F2, to allow investigating
  if increasing the minimum pointer to station threshold helps Hugh's problems
  with using aven on a touch screen device.

* aven: Add "hit test grid debug" mode, which shows the hit test grid and how
  many entries are in each box (toggled by F3).

So it should be a bit easier to select a station with a touch screen, and if that's not good enough, pressing F2 makes the threshold 5 times as large (so 35 pixels).

And F3 will show you how the stations have been gridded (which is a trick to allow us to only consider stations near the click rather than having to check every single one and makes for smoother update when you move the cursor around the survey).

Cheers,
    Olly

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