22 Nov
2011
22 Nov
'11
12:59 a.m.
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:33:38 -0500
David Robillard <d(a)drobilla.net> wrote:
On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 22:57 +0000, Fons Adriaensen
wrote:
Earlier this year I tried updating the PHAT toolkit to use the Cairo
backend for rendering (because the drawing code used by PHAT to
render the fans is deprecated).
The problem I found was that in order to get Cairo to draw the phans
on the desktop (without obliterating the desktop) desktop compositing
was required. I went round in circles looking at the documentation
trying to find a way to get it working without compositing enabled
(and without using deprecated code) but by the time I got to looking in
the GTK source itself I decided to make the fans optional while
additionally allowing shift to be used in combination without dragging
the slider for greater precision (and ctrl for even more).
I called it 'phin' and it can be found in the petri-foo source if you
want to look.
James.
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:42:31PM +0100, Nick
Copeland wrote:
Even almost every GUI toolkit sliders fails when used for
anything serious in audio. Try tuning your oscillators in
e.g. AMS when the auto-resizing frequency slider happens to
have 27.142857 steps per octave.
For stuff like this you need a way to enter precise values with a
corresponding text box anyway.
Though the old fan slider idea was a pretty good one... Subject: Re: [LAD] "bleeding edge
html5" has interesting Audio
APIs From: d(a)drobilla.net
All we need is a couple of sliders and knobs and such. It's
quite straight forward
Ah, is that all we need? I never realised it was so simple. Can I
have them in some dull, boring grey colour with sad square boxes?
You know, something that really inspires and that will convince
every iPad user that their ubercool GUI are a total waste of
time. Can you do that for me? That would be a killer!