[LAD] sliders/fans

David Robillard d at drobilla.net
Thu Nov 24 23:59:09 UTC 2011


On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 22:30 +0100, Nick Copeland wrote:
> > Just a thought, but perhaps an effort at a LAD HIG (Human Interface
> > Guidelines) might be a good idea, so things like this aren't
> arbitrarily
> > different between apps and plugins?
> > 
> > Naturally the scope of such a thing would be limited since different
> > programs have different needs, but at least things like twiddling
> > parameters could easily be standardized.
> 
> Are there any LAD reference docs here or is it completely greenfield? 
> 
> I did some searches on LAD HIG and you get some really off-topic
> results,
> good read, just off topic.
> 
> If it is greenfield then any concept of semantics should be dropped
> and
> leave the basic concept of what key/button pairs should cause a
> controller
> to do.
> 
> The net effect of the change is up to the app, no?

Yes.

The controller/model/whatever logic issues are definitely out of scope.

-dr






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