> While talking about UI ideas, how about keyboard-mouse chording? > Wild idea: > > Banging on the spacebar with varying frequencey while moving a drawing > tool with the mouse would be similar to varying the pressure if you > had a pressure-sensitive pen. Each press on the spacebar would > temporarily increase the "pressure", which would then slowly decay. > > Or, the arrow keys could be used to finetune the "pressure" and "tilt" > while moving the mouse. > > Some other keys could be used to modulate the colour, opacity, > whatnot. > > I'm sure we could brainstorm more similar stuff. Has any program used > an UI like this? Does it sound like a good or just goofy idea? The PalmWac application - an application that turns a PalmOS PDA into a "tablet" that can be used with wacom drivers - uses the PDAs hardware keys to adjust pressure. Michael -- The GIMP (deutsch): http://www.gimp.de COMPUTERBILD 15/03: Premium-e-mail-Dienste im Test -------------------------------------------------- 1. GMX TopMail - Platz 1 und Testsieger! 2. GMX ProMail - Platz 2 und Preis-Qualitätssieger! 3. Arcor - 4. web.de - 5. T-Online - 6. freenet.de - 7. daybyday - 8. e-Post
