Advice on Vision User Interface for a Surface Pro

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I have a Vision App for collecting and visualizing data but I need to create a touch screen version (probably for a Surface Pro). Is there any general advice for creating a user form for a Smaller screen/Touch screen? I'm thinking larger buttons and text fields. I know Vision is not suited to a tablet but upgrading to Perspective is not an option at this moment. I basically have 2 questions:

A. Am I right in thinking Vision will work on a Surface Pro that has a full version of windows?

B. I'm wondering if there are specific pitfalls to be aware of. I intend to make the new form read from top to bottom with scrolling.

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Many find that the normal scroll bar width is too narrow for a touchscreen. Within the designer, there are special settings for touch screen mode in the project properties under the general client settings. There, the default scroll bar width can be increased.

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I never would have thought of that, thank you

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Is it an Intel or ARM CPU?

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Modern Vision also has customizable popup keyboards for input fields. You may want to leverage those.

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oh excellent I will definitely utilize that, thank you

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It's not bought yet but I believe a Snapdragon processor was mentioned. Is this suitable?

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I don't know, you'll have to try it and find out.

It means you'll be relying on Windows 11 and its ARM-to-x86 translation layer.

We do not have native Windows/ARM support for anything.

edit: or downloading/installing a JDK built for Windows/ARM yourself and then using the "legacy client launcher" batch script to manually launch a Vision Client.

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Ok thank you, if I can't borrow a Surface Pro for testing I will try that

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I thought surface pros were Intel chips but could be wrong. We have some Dell ruggedized tablets and the catch we had was the display scaling was 200% due to the high resolution, so we had to use half resolution windows and large text to make sure it worked well with touch and the scaling.