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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.pen
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- From: jhc@m2lll.uucp (James H. Coombs)
- Subject: Re: Context switch on pen... idea
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.061505.11501@cs.brown.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.brown.edu
- Reply-To: jhc@iris.brown.edu.UUCP (James H. Coombs)
- Organization: IRIS - Brown University
- References: <1992Aug20.212708.22109@bert.eecs.uic.edu>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 06:15:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug20.212708.22109@bert.eecs.uic.edu> artn@bert.eecs.uic.edu (Ellyn Sandor) writes:
-
- > Mice have buttons. Why can't a pen have a button?
- > I am picturing the sort of button you use on a ball point pen
- >at the top of the pen to click the ink thingie into and out of writing
- >position.
-
- The Wacom pen has a button that can readily be positioned right under
- your thumb as you write. Much more convenient, I think, than a button
- at the top.
-
- > I think a button at the top of the pen, usable with the thumb,
- >would be ideal for some sort of "context switch" within applications.
-
- Ever start writing with a ballpoint only to find that you had not
- pushed out the point yet? I think there are modal problems with the
- physical pen that you are using as a model.
-
- >For example, one mode for creating text <click> another mode for editing.
- >Perhaps there would be some sort of LED or even a mechanical indicator
- >of mode (do pens have batteries in them?)
-
- How is this better than an icon that you tap on to change modes?
-
- --Jim
-