[linux-audio-dev] audiogui

[torbenh at gmx.de]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 03:45:18PM +0000, Chris Cannam wrote:
> On Monday 26 Feb 2007 23:40, Leonard Ritter wrote:
> > radial is for weirdos with the motor skills of a clockmaker.
> 
> Correct!  But where have all the radial supporters gone?  There were 
> enough to sustain quite a flamewar about this a couple of years back.

sorry... for high latency  :)

A KNOB WITHOUT RIGHT CLICK RADIAL MOVEMENTS IS A BAD KNOB.
and nobody wants bad knobs.

grrrr... ;)

> 
> I prefer linear in both axes (right or up to increment, left or down to 
> decrement), so there may be some scope for disagreement after all.
> 
> I've been considering making a small library of Qt4 widgets based on the 
> ones in the current SVN of Sonic Visualiser -- dial (based on the 
> RG/qsynth one), thumbwheel, panner, fader (based on Hydrogen).
> 
> They aren't particularly beautiful or consistent to look at -- if they 
> were, I wouldn't just be considering it, I'd have bundled them up a 
> while ago.  But what they do do is work consistently: click and drag to 
> adjust, without any inadvertant jumps on plain clicks; double-click to 
> open a text field edit window provided by the widget; middle-click or 
> ctrl+left-click to reset to default; mouse wheel supported.  They all 
> (except panner) support attaching a mapper object that translates 
> between the underlying floating point values and screen integers, so 
> you can use them for things like logarithmic scales and get the correct 
> mapping and units for their automatic tooltips and the edit window.
> 
> 
> Chris

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