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Re: Starcraft on a Laptop Tablet

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From: Luc The Perverse
Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 17:37
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"Isaac" <IsaacG...@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On Jul 8, 6:47 am, Kocureq <a....@w.stopce.pl> wrote:
>> Isaac pisze:
>>
>> > I was buying it for graphic art reasons, but im wondering if starcraft
>> > on a touch screen might be better than a mouse. Ur thoughts?
>>
>> I tried playing Red Alert on Tablet PC using pen as a pointer and it
>> wasn't that good. If you don't have external keyboard then scrolling the
>> map is really annoying, right-clicking the pen isn't as fast as when
>> using mouse, generally it's slower than using mouse. Nice to play with,
>> but not for serious play.
>>
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>
> did you try just using your fingers or just the pen. I'm not familiar
> with command an conquer, but it would seem that it could be faster if
> you kept one hand near the min map and used your fingers to click/box
> units and click commands.

I have never used a tablet PC - but if right clicking is delayed then it 
will screw you up.  You will need one hand on the keyboard, one hand on the 
"pointer device" - so if you can't right click with the hand holding the pen 
then you will be totally screwed.

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Subject: Re: Starcraft on a Laptop Tablet
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