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MoeMoe7
Mechanical
- Sep 27, 2014
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We are going to aggressively attack the issue of wasted icon clicking time.
We have done some benchmarks and we can clearly see that clicking on icons on a ribbon bar, menu bar or even right click menu is slowing us down drastically.
We have found that direct keyboard, single click commands are the fastest way to activate a function. The radial buttons are also excellent.
So.... in order of slowest to fastest (taking MEASURE DISTANCE function as an example)
1) choose from drop down menu
2) choose icon from top tool bar
3) Short-cut using keyboard then choose type
4) Radial button, then choose type
5) Short-cut using keyboard with type pre-chosen
6) Radial button with the type pre-chosen
by FAR the absolute quickest way is #4 and #5. There is a problem though. In order to pre-choose a type, you must make a separate user-command and tie it to a key-stroke. This means that since there are 10 options, you could have potentially 10 needed keyboard short-cuts. Obviously that is too many. (Okay, so we pare it down to the 3 most used options....that still is 3 keyboard short cuts.) Consider the multitude of other commands that could be streamlined. WAY WAY too many keyboard commands
This same problem exists if we try to use radial bar. (which are actually "Gestures") WAY to many too many.
Still....
Two questions:
1) I saw someone say in SOME post in this forum that it would be good to have some kind of "tracking" program that will track which commands are most used over a time period. This way we can say "hey, these are the top 20 functions we use the most." (I know....they change depending on task)
2) Is there a way to create a toolbar that pops up by the cursor when a keyboard short-cut is pressed. This would work just like the right-click of the mouse button..except of the right click it would be Crtl+D (for example).
Any suggestions?
Mauricio Haliska
Eng. Mgr.
We have done some benchmarks and we can clearly see that clicking on icons on a ribbon bar, menu bar or even right click menu is slowing us down drastically.
We have found that direct keyboard, single click commands are the fastest way to activate a function. The radial buttons are also excellent.
So.... in order of slowest to fastest (taking MEASURE DISTANCE function as an example)
1) choose from drop down menu
2) choose icon from top tool bar
3) Short-cut using keyboard then choose type
4) Radial button, then choose type
5) Short-cut using keyboard with type pre-chosen
6) Radial button with the type pre-chosen
by FAR the absolute quickest way is #4 and #5. There is a problem though. In order to pre-choose a type, you must make a separate user-command and tie it to a key-stroke. This means that since there are 10 options, you could have potentially 10 needed keyboard short-cuts. Obviously that is too many. (Okay, so we pare it down to the 3 most used options....that still is 3 keyboard short cuts.) Consider the multitude of other commands that could be streamlined. WAY WAY too many keyboard commands
This same problem exists if we try to use radial bar. (which are actually "Gestures") WAY to many too many.
Still....
Two questions:
1) I saw someone say in SOME post in this forum that it would be good to have some kind of "tracking" program that will track which commands are most used over a time period. This way we can say "hey, these are the top 20 functions we use the most." (I know....they change depending on task)
2) Is there a way to create a toolbar that pops up by the cursor when a keyboard short-cut is pressed. This would work just like the right-click of the mouse button..except of the right click it would be Crtl+D (for example).
Any suggestions?
Mauricio Haliska
Eng. Mgr.
