regular single touch screens are probably pretty good these days, but you're right - would't be very good for patching because of a number of reasons. mode switching from screen to keyboard (not a big deal, and maybe less of a big deal then doing so w/ the mouse?), screen resolution to finger size (maybe zooming could resolve this?), and the lack of multiple touch functionality, and i sure other problems.
if multitouch functionality were supported, there are all kinds of obvious and nonobvious advantages to touch screen tech...
imagine: gestures to zoom/unzoom, on-screen application-specific virtual keboards (no. more. multikey. keybindings. ever!), and so many other wonderful things i can't even image now.
the big problem is lack of support on all os's that i know of for muiltiple simultanious "pointer" input (same as "touches") - if the os doesn't support it, applications can't ether, so it's a pretty low level problem and barrier to this kind of user interaction. the MPX server project is really exciting because it finally adresses this and makes it possible to have more complex user interaction and alowing that to expand out to program development. seriously, it's 2006 already!
On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 09:12 +0100, padawan12 wrote:
Wow! That's a real startrek toy! I shudder to think how much one costs.
But, as with Chucks suggestion on the touchscreen, my 0.2c would be - fine for performance where you've already worked out your interface, but rather little use for synthesis development because of resolution. I tend to have a whole window in 1024-1280 and I think a small area like that would be clumbsy to use with my 10 pork saussages. Anyone got any experience of using touch tech like this? Last time I used one (about a year ago - a toshiba I think) it was less than adequate, the tracking (capacitive) made the cursor jump about quite a lot.
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 11:38:13 -0700 shift8 shift8@digitrash.com wrote:
i'd say that almost every patcher would like to have one of these :)
http://www.jazzmutant.com/lemur_features.php
and there's http://wearables.unisa.edu.au/mpx/ as well.
On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 13:52 -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
Wow, I just thought of something- shouldn't all PD patchers have one of these? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290011790850
Why? Does it solve a problem? How many does it add?
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