25 Jun
2004
25 Jun
'04
2:32 p.m.
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 17:28:09 +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 09:46:36AM +0200, Burkhard
Woelfel wrote:
>
> Radial movement on control elements often confuses me.
...
Well, the scaling issue was not obvious to me, I
needed to
read about it somewhere, but afterwards made extensive
use of this feature in Cubase.
I'm going to update the knobs with graphics like you
described (had the idea from the beginning on, but had
concerns about flickering / too much action on the
screen).
But I think fan-sliders would be the better solution in
most cases.
This is an interesting topic, I think I've missed most of it though :(
Personally I'm a radial knob kinda guy - I remember using the
scaling-by-moving-the-mouse-further-away thing years ago with spiralloops. The
other advantage of knobs is that they take up less space than sliders, and to
me collectively look more like a musical instrument controls than a bunch of
sliders (I don't know where this comes from)
I'm not anti sliders as I use a lot of them - although partly because they are
better supported in toolkits (I'm currenly using tk (yes tk!)) and I don't
have a choice.
I like your fan idea Thorsten, but I also think it could work invisibly - ie
no need for the transparent overlay. This would take a bit of learning that it
was there to begin with - but transparent graphics like that are expensive
(yeah, GPU's I know - but its something to keep in mind) and unnecessary after
learing how to use the control.
It would be good to collect a repository of existing GUI elements in
commercial packages - dunno what the legal implications would be, but it would
be useful.
cheers,
dave