[linux-audio-dev] [ANN] PHAT version 0.1.0

[Pete Bessman]

At Sun, 1 Aug 2004 13:54:50 +0200,
Jan Weil wrote:
> 
> On Sat Jul 31 21:39:51 2004 Pete Bessman wrote:
> > I'm pleased to annouce, after a solid month of heated debate with
> > X11, the initial public release of PHAT, the PHat Audio Toolkit.
> > From the website (www.gazuga.net/phat.php):
> 
> I tried the demo and I like the concept of the fanslider.

Cool, glad you like it.

> Did you think about displaying the current value in the fan?  With
> the demo it is easily possible to move the fan over the spinbuttons
> which hides your feedback and makes it impossible to control the
> exact value.

I did, but I think this information is better left to the app's
discretion.  To provide sufficient flexibility for value display
(location, format, prefix) would require much added API complexity,
and the end result would be less useful than simply writing custom
callbacks.

And personally, I think the cleanest way to display such information
is in a statusbar, or perhaps a tool tip.  I also don't see the
usefulness of exposing values to the user in an audio app (generally).
Panning might be stored as an excess-127 unsigned char, or a [-1.0,
1.0] float, or a LUT index, or a percentage.  I, as a user, don't
care; just so long as panning follows the slider position I'm happy.

I'm not opposed to this feature being implementing (just so long as
it's done well, and if you don't use it it's not there).  However, I'm
not going to be doing it myself, at least not any time soon.

-- 
Pete

www.gazuga.net

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