Do you use a tablet?
Simon Rogers
Administrator, ProFantasy Traveler
I'm interested to know whether people use tablets with their PCs - it's a pretty good way of interacting with graphics programs, but I suspect that very few people use them.
- Do you use a tablet or similar input device with your PC?18 votes
- Yes, with CC3+11.11%
- Yes, but not with CC3+33.33%
- No55.56%
Comments
I do use both a digitizer tablet and also touch screens with proper pen support with CC3+ (A surface tablet with a pen is a great way to map when you are on the go and have to deal with limited space [conference auditorium, plane, etc] and don't have a desk), but it is more a thing I do every now and then (less than once a month) rather than regularity.
I use an Intuos Pro Large all the time for drawing new assets, but I don't use it with CC because mouse is easier with CC.
Sometimes.
I have an older tablet that I use on occasion. I would love to get one of those new display tablets.
With my older tablet hand angle is the worst due to no reference. The first line is always off angle. So lots of CTRL Z.
I do most of my web browsing with an iPad tablet. My laptop pretty much stays at my desk but if I’m not doing something that requires the laptop’s capacity/software, it’s easier to take the iPad to a recliner. I read these forums on a tablet but all of my CC3 mapping work is with the laptop. I also find it easier to use a mouse than a touchpad.
I have a PC laptop for work and a MacBook Peo for my home computer, but the MacBook Peo is old so I tend to use the PC for everything.
I also have an iPad, but I think the question is more about input devices for the PC, like digitizing tablets.
Oh, like a Wacom tablet? Gotcha! Nope, I don’t have anything like that.
OK, I thought we meant graphical tablets to use the product on. I use a Surface Pro (ARM), and it works perfectly. The touch screen (tablet portion) is great for CC3+. Scrolling, zooming, and selection works well.
I have used iPads and Galaxy tablets, but they aren't as useful. Things like UTM on iPad (a great product) and remote desktop work, but you need a keyboard. Adding one makes it just a little more cumbersome than my Surface, so I don't do that any more.
My Wacom tablet is now claimed by my child who is into making video games not maps. I don't use that.
In this case, I think the intent is any kind of tablet or touch screen. The current tablet implementation in CC3+ is very much oriented around a CAD digitizer table and I hope the intent of this poll is to determine if there's enough interest to warrant exploring other modes of operation like pen and touch screen.
Once upon a time tablets and touch screens were rarer than hen's teeth, but I suspect that they have become common at least to the level of feathers on a lizard.
Interestingly, this poll is going in quite a different direction to the similar one on the FB Group page.
I would say there are probably a higher proportion of lurkers looking for handy maps to use on the FB page, though, and not so many actual CC3+ mappers.
I don't use touch technology of any kind, or things that require very precise freehand control, because of dexterity issues (I can set-off touchscreens without making contact with them at all, for instance). I'm fine with a small mouse, and a very firmly supported hand and arm, so I suspect I am not a typical person here to ask.
That said, I use a Kindle scribe pen on an older S3 tablet, just not with C3+, though that's my fault for sucking so bad at CC* than anything wrong with CC3+. I use it with OneNote to take notes on whatever I happen to be doing at the time, studying, working, and just creative writing.