8 Sep
2010
8 Sep
'10
12:01 a.m.
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