A proper kneeboard

[guncrasher]

dude advantage is having 3 screens with trakir.  now that is fricking immersion.  I can see from wingtip to wingtip.

I already know you can zoom in as I played with it at the same size.  guess what, i was having problems finding the base when I was rtb.  I couldnt find the base that I was going to when I zomed in to see the details that I needed.  that is what i am trying to tell you.  play with it same size as it could fit "looking down".  you will notice that it is useless a lot of the times and the frame rate hit for what it will be used is not a good exchange.

good luck with your wish.  hope it works out for you.  but it would help your case if you ask for a modified clipboard where all you see is the map. there wont be anything to click and have a tab open.  as that will give you about 30% more viewing area of the map.  now you understand the part about "what they ask is not really what they want".


midway

[Stellaris]

Having the map be a full clipboard page is actually a good idea, and could be part of what me might start to called the "Clipboard display option" wish.  Not necessary though, at least from my point of view.  I don't have any trouble with the icons - I only have 1 screen, but it is a 30" IPS at 2560x1600. 

[Stellaris]

@ midway qctually this brings up a question - you're using 3 screens (which by the way, is very cool).  How physically large (in inches on your screen) is the clipboard when you have it zoomed all the way out.  I ask because I'd think it'd be easy to read with so much space available.

Also - don't you find the monitor bezels interfere with your view?  How do you align them so the transition is smooth between them?

OK, that's 3 questions.

[guncrasher]

my viewing is big enough so I can have it as big or small as I want on the upper right corner and stil have at least 3/4 of a monitor left.  and yes it is easy to read with 3 monitors.  and no the bezels dont interfere with the game as the main thing is that I have monitor to look forward.  however when I had only 1 I would just quickly bring up the clipboard when needed and just as fast make it disappear.   and it is the same size as I have it right now.

but to answer your main question.  I dont have any saying if your wish is granted or not.  but like your 30 inch monitor and my 3 23 in monitors, we are in the minority and what may seem like a great idea to us when compared to the rest of the guys who play the game with only a >23 in  single monitor then you get the idea that perhaps the time hasnt come for it.


midway

[Stellaris]

Yeah, I get it that not everyone will be able to use this.  However you and I will and a lot of others will, and better screens are getting cheaper all the time so the numbers will increase.  As it's optional, no-one will be forced to adopt it, if it doesn't work for them.  It's good for those with nice screens now, it will be good for most people soon, and its an easy feature to implement that nicely sets HTC up for the future.  win/win/win, what's not to like?

Paul

[guncrasher]

Yeah, I get it that not everyone will be able to use this.  However you and I will and a lot of others will, and better screens are getting cheaper all the time so the numbers will increase.  As it's optional, no-one will be forced to adopt it, if it doesn't work for them.  It's good for those with nice screens now, it will be good for most people soon, and its an easy feature to implement that nicely sets HTC up for the future.  win/win/win, what's not to like?

Paul

dont include me I will see little use of it as it easr easier to see out of corner of my eye than to look down.  further more lost of people play with big screens but dont have trakir.  so we talking about a tiny minority of people that will play it and in the end is not worth the effort.

midway

[Stellaris]

I said you'll be ABLE to use it, not that you WOULD.

I don't buy your argument.  If too few people have TrackIR and the video capability to make use of this feature, then there is hardly any more point in installing support for TrackIR and large format screens at all.  And yet - these features were deemed worth of inclusion, and aren't you glad they were?  Wouldn't you be sad if someone had said "Why support three screens?  Nobody has three screens." back when nobody had three screens because there was no support for them.  You've got to build it before they can come.

That said, I'd love to see your statistics on how many users have trackIR, and what their screen resolutions are.  I haven't been able to find any.

Cheers!

[ink]

I like the idea of having the clipboard being in a stationary spot so it does not move around with the head views

[Nathan60]

Id like for the sun to noot shine directly through it.

[coombz]

I like the idea of having the clipboard being in a stationary spot so it does not move around with the head views

yeah perhaps a really simple thing to do that would go some way to granting Stellar's wish would be to just add a padlock button to the Clipboard, next to the zoom buttons, to lock it in place

[ink]

yeah perhaps a really simple thing to do that would go some way to granting Stellar's wish would be to just add a padlock button to the Clipboard, next to the zoom buttons, to lock it in place

that would work perfect....I would use it....

[Stellaris]

Absolutely brilliant coombz!  Simplest, most straightforward concept yet.  +1