[linux-audio-user] i'm a graphic designer - use me! ;-)

[torbenh at gmx.de]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:54:16AM -0800, Paul Winkler wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 04:43:00PM +0000, Steve Harris wrote:
> > I've not used Reason but I gather that it has UI problems, I've used apps
> > that have software knobs and the're easy to use, its a compact, analogy
> > representation of a setting and easy to parse in a glance. If the graphics
> > are done well and the control method is appropriate. Y axis does sound
> > pretty useless.
> 
> On the contrary, I find it much easier than trying to "turn"
> a GUI knob.
> 
> a Y-axis-only knob only requires me to:
> 
> - click on the knob and hold
> - drag up or down to change value
> 
> a "twist-analogy" knob requires me to:
> 
> - click on the knob and hold
> - drag mouse "away" from the knob in the approximate direction it's 
>   currently pointing ... tricky
> - drag the mouse in a rotating motion (clockwise or counterclockwise)
>   ... takes practice
> 
> Using this method I find that I almost always make the knob go 
> up and down a bit by accident before it settles in to what I want.
> This would be disastrous for recording automation. 
> 
> Therefore, I would request that app authors make the mouse
> behavior user-configurable. Please don't force the twist
> analogy on your poor users.  Some like it, some hate it.

gAlan uses LeftMoseButton-> up-down
           RightMouseButton -> knob points at pointer...

I use both methods frequently....