[LAD] sliders/fans

hermann brummer- at web.de
Tue Nov 22 14:41:42 UTC 2011


Am Dienstag, den 22.11.2011, 09:25 -0500 schrieb Paul Davis:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 7:05 AM, James Morris <james at jwm-art.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:33:16 +0400
> > Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> For darktable we examined the slider from phat and created a similar
> >> new, more usable widget which combines a label and a slider. You can
> >> enter precise value after a right click inside the slider area, and
> >> you can use pretty much anything as displayed unit: %, ", dB, px...
> >> whatever. Here is an example:
> >>
> >> http://i.imgur.com/KvwjS.png
> >>
> >> The highlighted "-0.500" is where I right-clicked to enter precise
> >> value.
> >
> > That looks interesting. I take it you removed the fan drawing code?
> >
> > What about imprecise but fine grained adjustments?
> >
> > If not, would adding a modifier such as [shift] for finer grained
> > movement of the slider be considered? It probably would be unimportant
> > for darktable, but in an audio application where adjustmented has
> > immediate affect on the audio stream it would certainly be useful.
> 
> just fyi, ardour's plugin parameter controllers do all of this and
> have done so for years. the only difference is that you double click
> to enter a numeric value, since right clicks are exclusively reserved
> for context menus.

guitarix controllers (libgxw/libgxwmm/pygxw/glade-gxw) do all of that
also, just they use control shift as modifier for fine tune but right
click for enter a numeric value. 





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