10 Sep
2010
10 Sep
'10
2:33 p.m.
On 09/10/2010 02:37 AM, Loki Davison wrote:
Since I used fan sliders in my app, I've been thinking a lot about them, and I'm
not sure they're such a great idea, for the reasons outlined above. And I saw
some sound engineers getting really confused when first trying them. But this
might be because they were just surprised.
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Olivier Guilyardi
<list(a)samalyse.com> wrote:
Actually, I
used the fansliders before, in the very same place :) But there were
two things that I didn't like:
- the way they look, especially when unfolded, those ugly/huge shapes around
- the fact that unwanted changes happen when you go away to gain precision
That's why I made those sliders IIRC. You have increased precision right after
clicking, you don't need to move away for that. Plus, with the way they are
integrated and some mouse magic, it doesn't matter if the window is closed to a
screen border or not. And I think they look neat ;)
Fansliders are lovely ideas, but the current implementation is pretty
crappy, and I haven't look at the code in years and didn't have a
clear idea about what I was doing with it last time anyway. Now that x
composite is a lot more common it would be easier. I'm surprised
Thorsten hasn't jumped in to the knob discussion yet. If anyone else
wants to fix fan sliders feel free to give me a yell. I still think knobs are pretty evil though. :)
Well, as I previously said, I think that knobs can make sense in certain
situations. So I'd rather see the phat knob improved ;) I think that's a really
cool widget, it provides a very clear visual indication, but it only supports
the circle movements.
It would be great if there were runtime options to customize the phat knob
behavior, to also support up/down and/or left/right, fine-tuning with a key
modifier, etc..
Providing alternative styles would also be very cool.
--
Olivier