I'm all for moving to touch screen user interfaces on oscilloscopes, but I haven't used one that works well. This one looks just as bad as any other. From the tech demo it looks like it's really slow and klunky.
We have a Tektronix DPO7000 series scope at work and most of controls are only accessible through the (Resistive
) touch screen. The menu system is like a typical Windows menu bar, and it's not very intuitive. The menu items are tiny and easy to select the wrong item, even with regular sized fingers. Worst of all, at the bottom of the screen the touch point doesn't line up correctly with the position on the LCD. I have to always mentally add a 1 cm offset to correctly select anything.
turn the knob and your offset is adjusted , wile with touch screen - it would be touch the screen to pop-up the offset adjustment and slide your finger to adjust.
It wouldn't have to be, the icons for offset are already always shown on the side of the screen, why not make those icons draggable? Same with the trigger.
Maybe it's just me, but I would love to have the ability to pinch to change the time base and volts/div, or swipe the screen to look through a waveform. It's intuitive for looking at websites on my phone, I don't see why it wouldn't be intuitive for an oscilloscope. If someone could deliver me that and make it smooth and responsive, I'd definitely want it.
Now when are we going to get an oscilloscope that's controlled using gesture recognition?