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Touchscreen monitor Windows 7 doesn't scroll library grid?

Jun 12, 2012 2:21 PM

Tags: #touchscreen #touch_screen

A big bummer that in the library grid mode (or any other scrollable part of lightroom) I can't scroll with my touchscreen monitor like I can in IE or Chrome or Word etc.??  What is touchscreen compatible in lightroom? I would love for lightroom to be touchscreen friendly.

 
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    Jun 12, 2012 2:34 PM   in reply to tthrjsn

    Not sure what you mean by "touch screen monitor":

    I use a Wacom Cintiq monitor and that works perfectly with Lightroom in all modules, has done so since Lr3.0 thru to 4.1

    So I use a pen directly on the screen like a tablet.

     

    What is your monitor, your driver? What are you trying to do and what is the reaction?

     

    Cornelia

     
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    Jun 12, 2012 10:10 PM   in reply to tthrjsn

    You are right: in LR you still need to use the special areas of UI to perform tasks. General gestures do not work.

     

    Holding a pen is as bad for your impairment as using a mouse?

     

    Have you tried with a mouse-replacement on a keyboard which is a (circular) flat touch pad with buttons for left/right-click?

    Or a contour shuttle pro device like Victoria Bampton suggests?

     

    ... I am just thinking what could work for you immediately with current functionality...

    Cornelia

     
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    Jun 28, 2012 11:46 AM   in reply to tthrjsn

    I was actually coming to the forums here to compliment Adobe on implementing touch sensitive scrollable areas in Lightroom 4!  I installed the trial on my HP TouchSmart TM2 tablet running Windows 8 Release Preview the other day and was surprised to see that SOME areas were actually scrollable via touch (without having to target that tiny scrollbar that doesn't resize based on user preference). The folders panel on the left in Library view seems to work consistently.  At one point I felt like multi-touch zooming was actually kind of working too, but then it stopped working.  There are other bugs, as well...  horizontal scrolling doesn't work in the filmstrip at the bottom.  Scrolling sometimes works in the right panel. Maybe it depends on where you touch.  At one point I touched some part of some other area and dragged up and down, but that caused the horizontal filmstrip panel at the bottom to scroll left and right.

     

    So to me it seems like Adobe is actually working on some touch-screen enhancements for Lightroom since none of that worked on Lightroom 3.x.  Hopefully they'll continue to add support since having the full Lightroom on a tablet like the upcoming Surface Pro would be extremely cool. Although, it could be that Windows 8 is somehow forcing touch scrollable areas onto Lightroom 4... hence the bugginess.

     
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