Level Extreme platform
Subscription
Corporate profile
Products & Services
Support
Legal
Français
VFP app with touch screen
Message
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01646660
Message ID:
01646683
Views:
47
Hi Thomas,

Thank you very much for your input. I am taking notes. I will have the tablet in my hands tomorrow and will see what my app looks like. I am sure I will changing fonts, buttons, and textbox sizes a lot until I am comfortable with how it looks.

>Hi Dmitry,
>
>a lot of deciyions depend on answering the question, if the app will run on a tablet too or exclusively on the tabket. Acrually I am writing two apps now which I test on a tablet.
>
>The first is designed to run on it too. Here, in its simplest form, I have only one field for data-entry. I use the windows-tablet-keypad and this works fine. The main thing to look at, is to keep the software as simple as possible. Just present the necessary main functionality and hide extra-features which are not often needed in some sub menus.
>
>After my first test, I decides to run all windows in maximized-mode, so there is no confusion with different windows and how to touch the right one.
>
>The other app is designed to run mainly as a touch-screen-app, no matter if on a tablet or a pos-pc. Here I haev written my own numericc- and keyboard-pad with which the users can enter data. This is a bit of work and I am still workung on it, but it integrates more in the "handling flow" of the app.
>
>If you run a prototype for the first time on a tablet you will easily see, what to do with the interface. The buttons should be big enough, use colors to seperate different parts of functionality on the form and choose fonts which are easily readable.
>
>Best regards
>
>Thomas
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham
Previous
Reply
Map
View

Click here to load this message in the networking platform