From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] The Misused Mouse
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:52:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46938DAE.F81195F9@null.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15D96033-0977-4C28-81A6-D85D22F85B6A@telus.net>
Paul Lalonde wrote:
> I'm just annoyed at the repeated fallacy that a pointing tablet &
> stylus is better than the mouse. That's only true if the display is
> the tablet - absolute position interfaces are very awkward to
> navigate with when you're not looking at them.
You can say exactly the same thing about the mouse!
The obvious solution is to drive a cursor. In the PEAC
product (calligraphic vector display and tablet) we used
full-screen crosshairs (low intensity) and it worked great.
If you have ever tried to draw with a mouse and with a
tablet, assuming good software, you'll have found that the
tablet is better for fine detail.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-10 13:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-09 22:17 David Leimbach
2007-07-09 22:33 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2007-07-09 22:43 ` Paul Lalonde
2007-07-10 13:52 ` Douglas A. Gwyn [this message]
2007-07-09 22:45 ` john
2007-07-09 22:50 ` Paul Lalonde
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