Touch support for EAGLE

On 21/07/2013 01:16, R Aiken wrote:

So I just got a new laptop (Samsung ATIV Book 8/ (aka Series 7 Chronos))

that has both a very nice multi-touch pad and a multi-touch screen.  One

thing that I think would be very useful is good integration of mouse

gestures into EAGLE.

 

Stuff like:

Pinch-to-Zoom

Two-fingered swipe to pan

 

Working properly on both the touchscreen and the touchpad

 

As it stands right now, the touchpad works for pinch-to-zoom, but if I

try to pinch on the touchscreen it will jitter about a bit before

settling back where I started when after I let go.  I think the basic

gestures like this can be handled through Microsoft's standard gesture

interface, so it shouldn't even be too difficult to code.

 

I know many people use a mouse, but I've found the touch to be pretty

useful, and would like to see it fully supported.

 

Anyone else have anything they'd care to add or any suggestions for

temporary workarounds?

 

 

Thanks in advance

 

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And come with integrated Facebook, Twitter and Eagle branded wipes to

clean the screen? Touch might be OK for kids, game addicts and other

information consumers, but hardly for doing real work, in my opinion.

Anyway, as long as it can be disabled...

Robert

CadSoft Guest wrote:

 

And come with integrated Facebook, Twitter and Eagle branded wipes to

clean the screen? Touch might be OK for kids, game addicts and other

information consumers, but hardly for doing real work, in my opinion.

Anyway, as long as it can be disabled...

 

Robert

 

 

Have you ever actually USED touch?  As long as you're zoomed in to where the grid is relevant, you can rifle through connections (e.g. when adding a bunch of nets of the same length off of an IC, you can position one finger at where you wan the nets to end, and another finger at the pins, then just alternate between the two faster than using a mouse to make the same nets).  It's also more convenient if I'm going mobile and just want to review a board/schematic (F3, F4, F5, and Alt+F2 are your best friends right now if you don't have a scroll wheel).

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Have you ever actually USED touch?

No, I design circuits professionally.

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Using touch and designing circuits professionally are not mutually exclusive. Being able to take advantage of equipped touch screens for simple panning and zooming would be useful as it's more physically intuitive and easier to use when you are checking your work or showing it to a coworker for input.

When building the circuit and laying out the board a mouse would be a better tool, however, for design review I can see benefit in taking advantage of a touch screen if one is available.

On 03/08/2013 18:23, Jason Traud wrote:

Being able to take advantage of equipped touch screens for

simple panning and zooming would be useful as it's more physically

intuitive and easier to use when you are checking your work or showing

it to a coworker for input.

Touching a screen is more physically intuitive and easier? I stopped

finger painting after kindergarten.

Robert

I don't know why everyone is so anti the touch based interface.  I use Eagle on a mac and there the gestures the OP describes are available on the touchpad.  I can work so much faster using pinch to zoom and two finger pan&track as opposed to using a mouse.  Not sure if I would want to touch the screen but each to their own and if the interface and libraries are their to enable it then why not have it as an option?!

Am 05.09.2013 09:38, schrieb pjuk:

I don't know why everyone is so anti the touch based interface.  I use

Eagle on a mac and there the gestures the OP describes are available on

the touchpad.  I can work so much faster using pinch to zoom and two

finger pan&track as opposed to using a mouse.

Yes, on a touchpad that's the case. For owners of a scroll wheel mouse,

however, zooming and panning with the wheel should be so much faster...

Andreas Weidner

In article <l09mrc$pns$1@cheetah.cadsoft.de>, andreas.weidner@aei.mpg.de

says...

 

Am 05.09.2013 09:38, schrieb pjuk:

I don't know why everyone is so anti the touch based interface.  I use

Eagle on a mac and there the gestures the OP describes are available on

the touchpad.  I can work so much faster using pinch to zoom and two

touch is ok on a pocket device but on anything else I'd say it was the

very last thing I'd want -

On 05/09/2013 18:02, jazz wrote:

In article <l09mrc$pns$1@cheetah.cadsoft.de>, andreas.weidner@aei.mpg.de

says...

 

Am 05.09.2013 09:38, schrieb pjuk:

I don't know why everyone is so anti the touch based interface.  I use

Eagle on a mac and there the gestures the OP describes are available on

the touchpad.  I can work so much faster using pinch to zoom and two

 

touch is ok on a pocket device but on anything else I'd say it was the

very last thing I'd want -

 

It seems to be a trend in Forums and web discussions to suggest touch

support for sometimes silly reasons. I get the impression that in many

cases this is done by people paid by Microsoft, which is desperate to

push Windows 8's interface for the mentally challenged.

R.

Robert Inscribed thus:

On 05/09/2013 18:02, jazz wrote:

In article <l09mrc$pns$1@cheetah.cadsoft.de>,

andreas.weidner@aei.mpg.de says...

 

Am 05.09.2013 09:38, schrieb pjuk:

I don't know why everyone is so anti the touch based interface.  I

use Eagle on a mac and there the gestures the OP describes are

available on

the touchpad.  I can work so much faster using pinch to zoom and

two

 

touch is ok on a pocket device but on anything else I'd say it was

the very last thing I'd want -

 

It seems to be a trend in Forums and web discussions to suggest touch

support for sometimes silly reasons. I get the impression that in many

cases this is done by people paid by Microsoft, which is desperate to

push Windows 8's interface for the mentally challenged.

 

R.

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