Windows 10 tablet

[HughStL]

Thanks for that, Graham, sounds good.  Obviously recognise the keyboard 
limitations of a pure tablet, but previously, back in 2014, it was the 
point/station selection which was a problem, even with a tablet (Dell 
Latitude) with accurate pen/stylus. But it could have been issues with 
v1.2.11 which have now been fixed. I'm ready to have another go, but 
wanted to garner other folks' experiences.

cheers
Hugh


On 02/03/2017 12:36, Graham Mullan wrote:
> 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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