RE: Writing for tablet PC applications

[Jim Shaeffer <jims -at- spsi -dot- com>]

The tablet PC I have on my desk (from Toshiba) gives these
equivalencies:

Single-click = Single-tap
Double-click = Double-tap
Right-click = Press and hold (refers to the button on the stylus that is
held while tapping to emulate a Right-click)

The Tablet editions of Windows XP ship with tutorials that cover the
same basics and seem to use the same terminology. 

Aside: I think "Double-tap" is preferable to "Tap Twice" because
Double-tap implies a need to do the tapping in a very short amount of
time (quite analogous to the weapon example that was posted). 

Jim Shaeffer

> 
> I am writing my first documentation for an application that runs on a
> tablet PC, and I'm trying to find out if there are any "standards" out
> there yet for the terminology to use to describe user actions. Do you
> say tap instead of click? Tap twice instead of double-click? Of
course,
> there can be no right-click or enter.
> 
> Does anyone have experience with this or know of any resources I can
> use?
> 

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