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Old 07-12-2010, 05:24 PM   #25
Lamplighter
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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey View Post
I just helped my parents get a new computer. It's a Gateway all-in-one. It has a multi-touch screen, and it came with Microsoft's version of Google Earth, with multi-touch controls. It's neat, but the rotation gesture seems to get confused sometimes.
If you are talking about using a scrolling-mouse to control the rotation and angle of view, I agree with you... it is awkward.

On a Mac you can use the right/left and up/down keys to control the directions of flying (right/left/forward/back).
Then by pressing the Apple key, these same keys control the rotation and view angle. On the PC, I would think the ALT key should do the same thing. With these keys, control is much easier.
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