[linux-audio-dev] Re: UI stuff

[Tim Hockin]

On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 04:50:40PM -0500, Ben wrote:
> and Murphy's law says your first 2 guesses will be wrong.  The app 
> "Soundplay" for BeOS takes a novel approach ... the level is shown as a 
> knob but when you grab it, a rectangular box appears behind the knob 
> and you adust it like a fader.  This is great because it gives you 
> visual feedback of which direction(s) to move the knob.

FL Studio does something similar for some knobs.  When you click it, a
vertical progress-bar pops up next to the knob, which makes it quite clear
that you move the mouse UP and DOWN to change the level.