9 Mar
2004
9 Mar
'04
4:58 a.m.
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 05:09:21 -0500, Jesse Chappell wrote:
Tim Goetze wrote on Mon, 08-Mar-2004:
Thats just a bad reflection of the controls - I would expect a set of
MOMENTARY controls for that situatuation (like on a hardware box).
No host has any chance of correctly interpreting that situation - someone
else could declare the same thing and reasonably expect it to be something
completely different (e.g. a slider that resets back to its default
position when released, like a pitchwheel).
I also dont like overloading the behviour of default to mean "not the
defualt" if the control is MOMENTARY hinted.
- Steve
[Taybin Rutkin]
Also, to take an example from sooperlooper, its multicontrol port
would be a MOMENTARY and ENUMERATED port. An ideal UI in its case would
likely be a bunch of buttons, one for each enumeration.... but
a generic host might make it a combobox and single button. How should a host deal with a port that is
MOMENTARY, but not
TOGGLED? What would the UI be?
a pushbutton emitting the default value for the port is a possibility.
another is a pushbutton and a slider/knob for setting the value to be
transmitted when pushed. yet another is a sensitive peak meter-like
object transmitting the amplitude at which the user clicked the
object.