05-01-2025, 02:27 AM (This post was last modified: 05-01-2025, 02:44 AM by Swiss1000.)
To simplify editing, it's possible to assign a quick action to a screen location. You can assign 2 fingers, 3 fingers, but nothing to directly indicate an edit mode if you have a stylus in your hand (Passive).
Would it be possible to create a specific shortcut: "Circling" on the screen means switching to edit mode, because then you have a stylus in your hand, and 2-3 finger actions are impractical. Furthermore, the "click on an area" mode has a drawback with the stylus: you often start editing accidentally...
There should be a specific action that opens editing, ignoring the first action for 1 second. Circling with a stylus makes sense, regardless of how precise it is.
Of course, other "squiggles" are possible, like simulating an eraser or a multi-scratch, but could it be more difficult to explain?
(05-01-2025, 02:27 AM)Swiss1000 Wrote: To simplify editing, it's possible to assign a quick action to a screen location. You can assign 2 fingers, 3 fingers, but nothing to directly indicate an edit mode if you have a stylus in your hand (Passive).
Would it be possible to create a specific shortcut: "Circling" on the screen means switching to edit mode, because then you have a stylus in your hand, and 2-3 finger actions are impractical. Furthermore, the "click on an area" mode has a drawback with the stylus: you often start editing accidentally...
There should be a specific action that opens editing, ignoring the first action for 1 second. Circling with a stylus makes sense, regardless of how precise it is.
Of course, other "squiggles" are possible, like simulating an eraser or a multi-scratch, but could it be more difficult to explain?
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I have switched on the option that the stylus activates edit mode automatically when touching (or nearing) the screen. Then it exists edit mode automatically after 10 seconds (default 5 seconds is too short for me). Would that satisfy your use case?
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(05-02-2025, 05:51 PM)fschop Wrote: I have switched on the option that the stylus activates edit mode automatically when touching (or nearing) the screen. Then it exists edit mode automatically after 10 seconds (default 5 seconds is too short for me). Would that satisfy your use case?
It needs an ACTIVE stylus, if you read my suggestion.
Lot of people, like me, heate active stylus, because need of charge and for an occasional notation it is enough th have a normal pen vith a screen device on the back.
(05-02-2025, 08:56 PM)Swiss1000 Wrote: It needs an ACTIVE stylus, if you read my suggestion.
Lot of people, like me, heate active stylus, because need of charge and for an occasional notation it is enough th have a normal pen vith a screen device on the back.
FWIW the stylus that came with my Boox TabX has no cable, battery or charging port. Instead it is a Wacom style EMR pen that is powered by a magnetic field generated by the screen. It works perfectly well with this option and enters annotation mode with both proximity or a touch.
So, it your tablet can support a Wacom EMR stylus then you're set to enjoy the best of both worlds.
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05-03-2025, 03:11 AM (This post was last modified: 05-03-2025, 03:12 AM by Swiss1000.)
(05-03-2025, 12:42 AM)Lawrie Wrote:
(05-02-2025, 08:56 PM)Swiss1000 Wrote: It needs an ACTIVE stylus, if you read my suggestion.
Lot of people, like me, heate active stylus, because need of charge and for an occasional notation it is enough th have a normal pen vith a screen device on the back.
FWIW the stylus that came with my Boox TabX has no cable, battery or charging port. Instead it is a Wacom style EMR pen that is powered by a magnetic field generated by the screen. It works perfectly well with this option and enters annotation mode with both proximity or a touch.
So, it your tablet can support a Wacom EMR stylus then you're set to enjoy the best of both worlds.
ha ha... like all passive stylet-pen...
The question is : having an otomatic stard of edit mode with passiv pen, like your finger !
You can also set a touch action to trigger the annotations editor. So you would then only need to tap a corner with your finger or stylus to enter annotation mode. That seems like a better option in my mind.
(05-03-2025, 04:35 AM)Zubersoft Wrote: You can also set a touch action to trigger the annotations editor. So you would then only need to tap a corner with your finger or stylus to enter annotation mode. That seems like a better option in my mind.
Mike
Yes, I did it allready, with som deagrements, but, it could be a nice and logical improvement in the future ?
I know you have a lot of demands...
It's quite tedious to track stylus input over time to then try to figure out if all of the points the user generated looks like that of a circle, and only then trigger the annotations editor (and I would have to keep collecting input until they lift the stylus before triggering this). It's not impossible to do this - but I would definitely want to hear from a fair number of users that this would be beneficial over the existing features before tackling it, as there are a lot of other higher priority requests.
If you export settings and another user imports your settings, their list of libraries will not be modified, but the active library will be changed to match whatever library was active on your device. So then they'd need to go and change their active library after restoring the settings.
(05-12-2025, 04:33 AM)Zubersoft Wrote: If you export settings and another user imports your settings, their list of libraries will not be modified, but the active library will be changed to match whatever library was active on your device. So then they'd need to go and change their active library after restoring the settings.
Mike
Librairy should not be modified by parameters exported...
05-12-2025, 05:51 AM (This post was last modified: 05-12-2025, 05:56 AM by Zubersoft.)
Care to explain why? If I have my library backed up on one device, then I restore it to another device so I can have an exact replica of that device, and a different custom library was in use, the app will automatically switch to that library so that the devices are the same. With your recommendation, the second device would just load with the empty default library even though the user restored a backup, and they would likely be confused. Or if I changed the logic, it could restore their backup into the default library (or whatever library was active) instead of the same library the other device was using, which could cause confusion too. If that's what people want (it always just restores into the active library and doesn't mess with what is active), I can make that change, but it does mean I need to extract that setting and place it an entirely new config file that is not exported or backed up at all.
I've changed the logic so that the active library will no longer be exported or imported with settings or changed as a result of restoring a library. So it's on users to make sure they switch to the library they want to use before restoring.
05-12-2025, 07:50 PM (This post was last modified: 05-12-2025, 09:56 PM by Swiss1000.)
(05-12-2025, 06:07 AM)Zubersoft Wrote: I've changed the logic so that the active library will no longer be exported or imported with settings or changed as a result of restoring a library. So it's on users to make sure they switch to the library they want to use before restoring.
Mike
You're right. That's better. By the way: when restoring, the program asks for "Database"...
That's strange; I don't think anyone modifies the database (Android, but not Windows). However, it's very important to ask for the "Library" destination.
Or, at minima, display the active librairy on the windows confirmation.
This will reduce the risk of errors. If you added the function "Filename=LibraryName"+dates, etc., in backup name when save librairy this would be perfect.
To close the discussion on "Passive Stylus" a long press could directly open "Edit Mode" (Annotation), now a long press opens "Tools" (according to my settings) but it could be very useful to accept a direct transition in "Edit". On Windows I assigned "Ins" to open Edit mode, but with stylus it is not possible. Maybe a small improvement for the future?
Interest is : Having the edit anotation mode directly, not in two steps, and, in addition, the edit mode directly over the full sceen.
Now tho have this you have to long clic, clic Edit mode, then click again to have full screnn edit mode in certains situation, sometime it goes directly ...
Yesterday, 03:38 AM (This post was last modified: Yesterday, 03:44 AM by Zubersoft.)
Have you considered using a touch action to directly enter the annotations editor? You could just tap in a corner, or the top or bottom to instantly start annotating if you want a single action for that. You'd just need to change Settings->Touch & Pedal Settings->Touch Actions.
Where are you seeing a reference to "Database"? I'm not sure if you are talking about import/export settings, or backup/restore library, but in none of those should there be a reference to the database. There is a separate "Restore Automatic Database Backup", but that is designed for error recovery only in certain scenarios, as it will completely replace the active database file. This can cause major problems if users do that without understanding the consequences, as it will not handle any deltas between the current and selected database file. It's not a minor action to do this - it can have very severe consequences with no option for recovery if the user didn't create a full library backup file beforehand. It's only there if users want to roll back the database file and understand the consequences for doing so. I would not recommend using that to most users. This feature also only operates on the current active library - you can't select backups from a different library.
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