[linux-audio-dev] Is ladspa actually la-dsp-a? Is JACK the ultimate solution?

[Florian Schmidt]

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 20:22:24 +0100
Chris Cannam <cannam at all-day-breakfast.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday 08 Jun 2004 7:46 pm, eviltwin69 at cableone.net wrote:
> >     Right click on any slider in JAMin and it immediately goes to
> > the default position, whether center or zero.
> 
> Ah, now I looked for that feature but didn't find it.   In Rosegarden 
> you double-click to zero a fader.  I didn't think of right-clicking.

Hi, if i might chime into this discussion. I think here's an important point to be made about UI's that explain themselfes. I once had a look at Wings3D, a 3D-modeler and it has this very nice feature that tells you what kind of actions are available in the status bar. So, when you have the mouse over a slider, it could reveal it's mouse bindings in the status bar. I made a little screenshot. Imagine the mouse pointer over the greenly highlighted triangle..

http://www.affenbande.org/~tapas/wingsscreen.png

The info in the status bar is context sensitive, so it changes depending on what part of the gui you use in that moment.. In a hd recorder like ardour, it could be used for example, when the mouse hovers over a track. Then it shows what kind of action each mouseclick does on that track, etc. Highly useful!

I have the feeling that in many apps, much power is "hidden" in the UI. So it would be nice, if it kinda played with open cards, telling you what possible moves you can make at any point in time. This is especially useful in apps, where much power is concentrated in mouse manipulation of objects.. But the same applies to sliders, other gui elements which have non-obvious mouse/key-bindings..

Florian Schmidt

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