Hello. I'm hoping someone can offer some advice on digitizing and editing in Pro using a touch screen laptop computer. This is a task that I could do quickly and easily in Desktop using my Surface Pro tablet computer. Now with Pro and an HP Envy Laptop, as recommended by some ESRI users, I can't seem to find a work flow that doesn't include endless shifting between a mouse, the keyboard and using a pen stylus on the touch screen. I do a lot of creating and reshaping linear features as seen on aerial imagery.
The pen stylus using Streaming Mode Tool is my primary digitizing tool for this work.
Here's my challenges:
1. The active reshaping tool - streaming, arc, etc. - does not stay active after ending a reshaping segment. It always reverts back to the Line Tool. Note that is submitted this as a separate question and ESRI has indicated that this is a known "bug". So likely there is little chance that it will ever be taken care of and it is now a "feature" of the software. This is annoying, but I can live with it for now.
2. Ending a line with a double tap, or even just a tap sometimes, of the pen stylus ends the segment AND zooms the display in so I have to reset the display scale before continuing. Accidental taps on the screen with the pen tip causes a Zoom.
3. I have to hoover the pen stylus over the surface of the display in order to Stream a line segment. If the stylus tip touches the surface of the display, the Pan tool is activated and the display is panned until I lift the tip of the stylus off the display, at which time it continues pauses the streaming line and I have to single tap to get the streaming line to resume.
I've tried:
1. Checking and Unchecking the "Touch Screen input for new features" option in the Editing Options dialog.
2. Changing every option in the Windows Pen & Windows Ink settings.
3. Updating Windows, all drivers, and ArcGIS Pro.
No matter what settings I try, Pro just does not want to allow me to get any work done. This was an extremely efficient work flow in Desktop. I could digitize hundreds of miles of features on screen with the stylus quickly and accurately. Early on I was excited to hear that Pro was being design to be "Tablet Friendly" for editing, but so far my experience has been more "Tablet Hostile"!
I'd love to get some input from users who are successfully using Pro on a touch screen computer using a pen stylus. Settings, workflow, work arounds, etc. would be much appreciated! I'm at a stand still now and can't even go back to Desktop because ESRI is no longer offering license codes for it.
Thanks!
