[linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design

[Dave Robillard]

On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 05:33, Alfons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 10:57:09AM +0200, Uwe Koloska wrote:
> 
> > But there comes another handling problem:
> > some people have opted for linear movement (I too think radial 
> > movement is intuitive but mostly unusable -- normal mouse movement 
> > is linear) but then I think we need both directions:
> > - up/down for something like gain
> > - left/right for something like pan
> > and this only works with an additional linear display in the right 
> > direction
> > 
> > What do you think?
> 
> One solution is to make it depend on the place you hit it, and
> define the effect of a mouse movement as the projection onto the
> tangent at that point.
> 
> So for example if you click on the bottom, moving left will rotate
> clockwise, if you clock on the left side, moving up will do the same.
> Top and right would to the inverse.

Way too finicky and difficult IMHO.

-DR-