Improve Touch Control in RW

vendolis · November 23rd, 2013, 12:05 PM

Hi,

i know windows touch is still in its infancy and only very few ppl use a full windows with a touch interface. But using a Tablet or a convertible laptop with touch screen get more common and is a great tool at the RPG table. I just got a Surface Pro and it seems for me the optimal system for a role play session.

The thing i am looking for is the ability to scroll in the different areas of Realm Works. Scrolling works with a mouse wheel, but not when using a finger swipe. It would be great if that could be implemented.

all other things worked very well when i tried them out with the current version.

Thanks a lot

AEIOU · October 11th, 2016, 09:26 AM

Resurrecting this thread. I hate, hate, hate RW on my laptop because I keep trying to swipe to scroll and it doesn't work. Is this fixable or is it part of the underlying infrastructure that can't support without a lot of work?

daplunk · October 11th, 2016, 11:39 AM

Per the system requirements page.

Note that Realm Works will NOT run on Windows RT devices like the Surface RT and Surface 2.

Dr_Automaton · October 11th, 2016, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by daplunk

Per the system requirements page.

Note that Realm Works will NOT run on Windows RT devices like the Surface RT and Surface 2.

What does that have to do with the feature request? RW runs just fine on many Windows devices that support a touch interface.

daplunk · October 11th, 2016, 03:15 PM

OP said he was using a Surface?

Dr_Automaton · October 11th, 2016, 03:20 PM

He said he was using a Surface Pro. His post strongly implied that he was already running RW on his device (I'm assuming Win8, but I don't particularly care to look up the 2013 specs). Then AEIOU posted that he would also like to have the interface looked into. Again it runs on his system. MS is pushing Win10 pretty hard. What does RT have to do with anything at this point?

daplunk · October 11th, 2016, 03:27 PM

I was just providing the information that appeared relevant to the OP. It that's not the case; sorry.

Dr_Automaton · October 11th, 2016, 03:34 PM

No need to apologize. I hope I wasn't coming off as confrontational or defensive. I'd just hate to see a valid feature request shut down over a dead OS. Cheers!

AEIOU · October 12th, 2016, 12:05 PM

My laptop is touchscreen and runs full-fledged Win10.

My desktop has a touchscreen as well but I find the reach annoying for anything other than web browsing as I scroll through things quickly. But then that's how I'd be using RW when running games so I'd like to be able to use that monitor as well.

MNBlockHead · October 12th, 2016, 02:47 PM

This is not meant to be sarcastic, I'm genuinely curious. How would touch be useful with RealmWorks? Seems like it would be less convenient. Whenever I've been on laptops with touch, I find I never bother to touch the screen.

I do use touch with tablets, but I can't see RW being easy to use on a touch-screen tablet without a major overhaul to the interface. Not just enabling touch, but major changes to the GUI.

AEIOU Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 1,147 October 11th, 2016, 09:26 AM	Resurrecting this thread. I hate, hate, hate RW on my laptop because I keep trying to swipe to scroll and it doesn't work. Is this fixable or is it part of the underlying infrastructure that can't support without a lot of work?
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Dr_Automaton Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2013 Posts: 150 October 11th, 2016, 03:20 PM	He said he was using a Surface Pro. His post strongly implied that he was already running RW on his device (I'm assuming Win8, but I don't particularly care to look up the 2013 specs). Then AEIOU posted that he would also like to have the interface looked into. Again it runs on his system. MS is pushing Win10 pretty hard. What does RT have to do with anything at this point?
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