[linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design

[RTaylor]

 The real importance of Live's interface to me is that it begins to look at 
the user interface as graphical symbols {forms with function... all 
that} ...Something that can be cross platform, international, interlanguage 
and even encoded into a postscript font. It breaks away from the need to 
simply imitate analog and to be limited by analog limitations and begins to 
look at those ideas in a uniquely digital manner. {A point from which they 
can be re-conceptualized, re-considered... appended, addended, etc and so 
on ...ad infinitum.}

{Aside from the fact that it's clean simple, easy to read and decipher and 
doesn't waste half of my memory and processor drawing a reference to 
something it isn't.}

On Wednesday 09 June 2004 15:38, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
} Hi!
}
} With the recent talk about plugin guis and stuff I think
} it's well fitting to present a knob design experiment I
} created for a LDrum redesign.
}
} SVG vector graphics (prefered by Peter and me)
} http://wrstud.uni-wuppertal.de/~ka0394/forum/04-05-02_knobs_02.png
}
} 3d rendering variatios
} http://wrstud.uni-wuppertal.de/~ka0394/forum/04-05-02_knob_3d_1-2-3.jpg
}
} Please see this as exemplaric, not finished work.
}
} The basic idea is to combine graphical clearness (Abletone Live ...)
} with enough plasticity to make it look 'touchable'.
}
} And generaly about knobs:
} If you ask me, radial is the only right way of mouse control for
} knobs. Gives the special advantage that you can have large value
} changes with small pointer movement close to the knob, or more
} precision if you move the pointer away.
} Not to forget that a knob says 'turn me'. Requiring linear
} movement then means telling one thing while meaning something
} else (bad communication practice).
}
} ---
} Thorsten Wilms
}
}

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