[LAD] Mouse/knob interaction

[Arnold Krille]

On Tuesday 07 September 2010 20:20:10 Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
> 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?

rotary-movement: Fire up paint. Try to draw 5 perfect quarter circles. And 
then ditch that idea completely and forever. The only special cases where 
rotary movement works is multi-touch screens or in a limited why when your 
"mouse" is a track-ball.

Make it look like a rotary, make it usable like a slider (that is up/down  
_or_ left/right movement).

And if you really need to save space: Use it like a slider, paint it as a 
color-field with the value as number and color...

Have fun,

Arnold
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