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Hi,
Has anyone experimented with a Tablet PC for Dialog Mapping facilitation, using Questmap or Compendium? I would guess its slower than a skilled typist, but might be more natural and easier for a newbie. But I havent seen it tried, or even used one of the Tablet PCs.
Hi Bill (sorry for the timelapse since your orig post!)
Yes, pen-input and manipulation in Compendium is a very natural action in many respects and often at least as quick as using a mouse: arguably a greater sense of direct manipulation of nodes; dragging nodes from the toolbar; many of the actions such as assigning Compendium Tags, and copying/pasting can be done from the toolbar buttons.
The key limitation for Compendium at present is that node labels cannot currently accept text input from the Tablet PC Input Panel, because the labels aren't actually 'text objects', but painted objects (historical accident!). You have to open the node and enter/edit the label in the detail window. At some point we will make labels proper text fields.
Another annoyance is that right dragging (as you do when scrolling the canvas by right dragging in white space) is a pain. However, I've just requested that in the next version we can Cntrl-drag so that pen users can do this without trouble.
Obviously you also lose a bit of screen space with the Tablet PC Input Panel.
(Preview news on the next release: we have moved from Access as the database, to MySQL, finally enabling multiplatform Compendium, and more robust database storage)
Simon
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