10 Jun
2004
10 Jun
'04
3:27 p.m.
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 02:09:08PM +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
Tim Hockin: please elaborate about velocity sensitve
knobs like
used by OhmForce.
When you move the mouse slowly, you get very fine control. When you move
it faster, the control gets coarser. So you can move a knob from 0.0 to
1.0 quickly with a fast mouse gesture, or you can move it from 0.5 to 0.6
very slowly.
For those who think radial is bad: in that case knobs
shouldn't
be used at all! (Tim Hockin: it makes no sense to disagree to a
half sentence/meaning!) Popping up a slider doesn't help much,
the nature of the control should be clear right away.
I'm still going to put my bet on linear. If you do a usability study of
linear vs radial, I bet linear will be more obvious and easy to control.
And you will not convince me otherwise until I see a usability test done
with non-LAD users :)
Oh, and about linear needing 2 directions, up/down for
gain
and right left for pan (Uwe): Sure. And the widget has
to be clear about that in advance.
This is such a bad idea, unless the control is an X/Y control to start
with.