dirkhh
Contributor
I did my first couple of short dives in a pool today - just to get the hang of the computer and its setup before the first boat dive next week in Japan.
I love the computer, the display, the visualization of tank pressure, most everything that I've tried.
But I have to say, the user interface is horrid - especially numerical data entry. There are so many great ways to visualize and implement the input of numbers with the two sliders and this gorgeous display. The weird "numerical keyboard" that you navigate around, delete and then add digits, must be about the worst way to do it, though.
Look at any iPhone (or Android phone) app. Have the appropriate number of digits. Horizontal slider picks the digits, vertical slider picks the number. Easy, obvious, painless.
Please, uemis, this should be a really simple and straight forward change in the software and the improvement to usability would be tremendous. As someone who usually dives rental tanks and switches between places with AL, LP and HP tanks of different sizes I will frequently be changing the gas data. It would be nice to be able to store a couple of default cylinders to easily switch between (like an AL80, LP95, HP100). But even without this, at least a decent input UI would make me a much happier customer.
On an unrelated note, I had the 'ok/exit' button get stuck a couple of times. I don't know if I just pressed it in a strange angle - but since I need to be able to operate this with thick gloves (or dry gloves) I was kind of surprised by this. I'll monitor this for a while and if it continues to be an issue I'll talk to DRIS to find out if this may be specific to the computer that I have...
I love the computer, the display, the visualization of tank pressure, most everything that I've tried.
But I have to say, the user interface is horrid - especially numerical data entry. There are so many great ways to visualize and implement the input of numbers with the two sliders and this gorgeous display. The weird "numerical keyboard" that you navigate around, delete and then add digits, must be about the worst way to do it, though.
Look at any iPhone (or Android phone) app. Have the appropriate number of digits. Horizontal slider picks the digits, vertical slider picks the number. Easy, obvious, painless.
Please, uemis, this should be a really simple and straight forward change in the software and the improvement to usability would be tremendous. As someone who usually dives rental tanks and switches between places with AL, LP and HP tanks of different sizes I will frequently be changing the gas data. It would be nice to be able to store a couple of default cylinders to easily switch between (like an AL80, LP95, HP100). But even without this, at least a decent input UI would make me a much happier customer.
On an unrelated note, I had the 'ok/exit' button get stuck a couple of times. I don't know if I just pressed it in a strange angle - but since I need to be able to operate this with thick gloves (or dry gloves) I was kind of surprised by this. I'll monitor this for a while and if it continues to be an issue I'll talk to DRIS to find out if this may be specific to the computer that I have...