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Support for Apple Pencil in Scratchpad


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I wonder if there are any plans to provide support for Apple Pencil in the scratchpad. Whilst you can write in the scratch pad, when your wrist touches the screen it doesn't ignore this as with fully supported pencil applications and you get random lines on the scratch pad.

It would be very useful to have this support as the pencil is also a very good interface tool for accuratley selecting user way points, for example.

Many thanks

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I would also like to see more Apple Pencil support in the Scratchpad.
Like switching between writing and erasing with double-tap.

Greetings from Germany


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checklist - 6/5/2020 4:41:31 AM
I would also like to see more Apple Pencil support in the Scratchpad.
Like switching between writing and erasing with double-tap.

Greetings from Germany


+1

I’ve recently switched from paper+pen to iPad + Apple Pencil and after few flights I love it.
However, the scratchpad is very rudimentary in SD currently and even some basic features would improve it massively (eraser!).



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+1 

This would really be a benefit. 

I wouldn't even want/need all Pencil features implemented - main thing would be to ensure the basic Apple Pencil features like palm rejection works well as that caused problems at the moment using Scratchpad with the Apple Pencil at the moment.  Plus maybe an easy eraser option like a "scribble over to erase" feature

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I'd love to bump this suggestion. And hopefully it's an easy one using Apple's APIs etc?
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Proper support for the Apple Pencil would be excellent at this stage. The scratch pad is pretty lacklustre without that support. 
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Support added for the next release.
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Thank you Tim for adding this and continuing to listen to the community ! 

I just saw the release note in the latest Skydemon update ! 



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