Tablet Mode

[Garrett]

When I'm in a place where its hard to use a mouse such as a plane I like to use Ventsim in Tablet Mode and edit with the Microsoft pen. Sometimes I do this just for a change of pace.  The feature that is lacking in Tablet Mode is the ability for two finger panning on the touch screen. This would significantly decrease the number of steps in order to move around the model. Two finger zoom kind of works but is not as smooth as using the mouse wheel and often selects airways instead of zooms. We are now all accustomed to using our phones and tablet touch screens. Many Windows programs now include touch enabled features and when a program is lacking these controls it feels out of date.  

[John Armstrong]

Hi Garrett,

Thanks for the feedback, yes we've been recently working on tablet mode for Vent Log our application for collection survey information underground, and as such we we're thinking about updating the VentSim touch controls (as you said these are a bit out of date)

We'll let you know when we have an update ready...

Thanks! 

 

 

[Phil]

Hi John, 

Does a tablet mode for ventlog exist? 

Cheers

Phil

[Craig Christensen]

Hi Phil.

There is a tablet mode in Ventlog. 

To enable it click this button on the ribbon menu so that it switches to Tablet Mode

When in Tablet mode it will look like this:

Then when you click the Add button you will see the tablet entry form:

You select a station with the search button, select any reason for reading, activity etc. that you would like to enter and then click the Add Records button to move to the next screen

You can only add records that you have already setup as your Favourites, so you should have the favourites list setup (you don't need to enter a value for everything in the favourites list every time).  You tap the record type from the list and then use the number pad to tap in the value and then move to the next data type.

The one entry that is a bit different is Velocity, where you can via reading with an anemometer or smoke tube (anemometers can be setup in the Edit ribbon menu with their latest calibration figures as well).

To generate a valid entry, you need to take 2 consecutive readings within a threshold (setup in the System Settings) and then click Enter Average to submit that average velocity from the last two readings.

You can then go to the Comment tab and write in any comments you want to add, this should prompt the on screen keyboard to open to type with.

Then you have a final Review & Submit screen which just lets you double check what you have entered all in one screen before you submit the record.

You may need to download the latest version of Ventlog if you can't see the Tablet mode button.

Let us know if you have any questions.

Regards,
Craig