[LAD] Mouse/knob interaction

[Paul Davis]

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Gabriel M. Beddingfield
<gabrbedd at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
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>> This is going to stir up a bit of discussion!
>>
>> Rotary knob GUI elements - should you move the mouse in a circle to
>> operate them, or up and down?  What about side to side?
>
> My opinion...
>
> circle: no.
> up and down: yes.
> scroll wheel: yes.
> left and right: up to you.

i like distance scaling - the further the mouse is from the center of
the knob, the coarser the changes in response to whatever motion
drives changes.