I think I made a strange discovery here...

[PoundSand]

Ok PoundStatic Nice Wiki link there, so nice to see you can snarkily use google... and maybe I got A WORD wrong, but this sounds pretty close to what I was talking about.

From the wiki:
A capacitive touchscreen panel consists of an insulator such as glass, coated with a transparent conductor such as indium tin oxide (ITO).[7][8] As the human body is also a conductor, touching the surface of the screen results in a distortion of the body's electrostatic field, measurable as a change in capacitance. Different technologies may be used to determine the location of the touch. The location is then sent to the controller for processing.

Or one could also say a measurable change to the electricity conducted through a material panel.

nope, you're not understanding the link- you can change the amount of electricity conducted through something (that's a change in current) and not change the capacitance (i.e increase the voltage going across a wire). and no, i didn't need to snarkily use google to understand that. and yah, you got a word wrong, and maybe it "sounds close", but it's not actualy correct, despite how close it sounds.

So basically, wiki link definition throwing around notwithstanding, the main thing we're getting at here is that there is an odd (most likely) software behavior behind how the capacitive buttons on the Epic work.

this is actually one of the better uses of wiki- for well established, basic scientific terms. but of course software controls how the buttons behave. the fact that they're contextual proves thats. and fwiw, just about every button on just about every electronic device is software controlled these days.

 

[caliskimmer]

nope, you're not understanding the link- you can change the amount of electricity conducted through something (that's a change in current) and not change the capacitance (i.e increase the voltage going across a wire). and no, i didn't need to snarkily use google to understand that. and yah, you got a word wrong, and maybe it "sounds close", but it's not actualy correct, despite how close it sounds.



this is actually one of the better uses of wiki- for well established, basic scientific terms. but of course software controls how the buttons behave. the fact that they're contextual proves thats. and fwiw, just about every button on just about every electronic device is software controlled these days.

Yeah, I thought they're all software controlled However, I just can't understand why nobody has come up with a way to tweak the sensitivity on the cap. buttons. I mean, wouldn't you expect there to be a ROM with this ability? Oh well, many people are happy and don't see a problem.

By the way, I know capacitive has to do with some sort of electrical current, but I'm not sure what. I think PoundSand is actually correct now that I studied up on this, but SomeAudioGuy seems like he was trying to say this anyways.

Now that the problem is solved, I'm going to close up this thread and you guys can continue to do your good work in another thread.

Once again, thanks!