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[Pat McGowan <pat.mcgowan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/20/2012 05:52 PM, Henri Sundelin wrote:
> [As suggested, reposted this unity-design->unity-tablet]
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> Hello everybody,
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> I just joined on this list - seems the right place to be as I started
> my tablet usability hacking (or should this be posted somewhere
> else?).. I got myself a new Samsung Series 7 Slate, and I've been
> evaluating latest Precise on it. Works somewhat, lots of more work
> required though. We'll see..
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> So, this device gave me some ideas on how different tablet style input
> devices like touchscreens, pens etc, should be handled - currently
> everything is always "on", which means you cannot use the pen if you
> want to lay your hand on the multitouch screen like you do when
> drawing on paper.
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> I think we could be more intelligent, and at least let the user easily
> choose.
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> I made a quick'n'dirty test on this, so there would be a indicator
> icon on the toolbar, and some backend logic which dynamically turns
> off the touchscreen when the pen is present. It seems very usable, now
> you can actually draw with the pen. You can check it out @ my blog:
> http://henris42.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/touchscreen-pen/
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> What do you think - should this kind of functionality be part of Unity?
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> Cheers,
> //HS
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Henri

Thank you, this is quite interesting, I asked one of our uTouch guys to
comment further.

Pat