10 Jun
2004
10 Jun
'04
4:34 p.m.
> The discussion about linear or radial mouse
movement for
> knobs finaly got me to mockup an idea i had in my mind
> for sometime already.
>
> For now I call it fan sliders:
> http://wrstud.urz.uni-wuppertal.de/~ka0394/forum/04-06-10_fan_slider_01.png
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I think that's a really good idea.. the
'base' slider could be really
small (ie the size of a knob), but the movement would be linear, and
with variable precision.. and it seems like it would be immediately
obvious how to use the thing.
It'd be a pain to implement though. Can Gtk/Qt even do stuff like this?
Its not really the same as Thorsten's idea, but in ardour when you
grab a control point in an automation track, we draw a big text cursor
showing the value of the current position. I guess i am just pointing
out that when using a canvas-style widget, more or less anything is
possible. with ordinary widgets, its much harder.
--p