Arnold Krille wrote: I never stated that I invented the skinned knob. You find all sorts of knobs in various linux audio apps. (eg hydrogen etc .. but they are too specific and not flexible enough for general purpose use). Of course I reimplented my own version. It was based on ideas of various LADers and people on #qt. The purpose of SkinDial is to have an easy to use, flexible skinnable knob that works like QDial. Did you take the time to try the example andcheck out the HTML docs in the tgz before saying there's such a version in kde since years etc ... ? do you mean kpoti of http://webcvs.kde.org/kdemultimedia/arts/gui/kde/ ? it's not pixmap based. And certainly those widgets you mentioned don't come with extensive docs, example code and multiple mouse movement methods (Y/X/Radial), configurable pixmap angles etc. Adding float support so that you can do eg. setMinValue(0.1) ; setMaxValue(0.9) and setValue(0.5) is trivial. I'll add it to the next version to make anyone happy. (and new skins are in the works by Thorsten and Peter). It does. if you look at the screenshot: http://www.linuxsampler.org/misc2/skindial/skindialtest.png the big one (it's even in the text on the GUI :) ) is derived from the same small pixmap that is used for the other knobs. you can resize() it to any dimension. Of course it does not make much sense to take a small pixmap and make a big widget out of it. But doing the viceversa makes sense, since if you reduce the size of the knob you don't get the pixellation effect. Still, I suggest setting the widget to the same dimension as the pixmap. I might be a bit stupid or naive but I did look around quite a bit before starting working on SkinDial, I even asked some KDE developers if I could recycle some code but they confirmed that nothing as flexible as SkinDial existed. That's why I started writing it. The main purpose for SkinDial was to have some nice knobs in qsampler, the LinuxSampler GUI. But I thought making a generally usable knob widget with extensive docs and example code was better than implementing yet another application specific knob. The code is here and people are free to use or not use it in their applications. It will be used at least in qsampler and this was the motivation writing it. Then if it comes it comes with full documentation and example code and blender source files it's only a positive sideeffect. :) So please next time before writing such comments, please try out the code and read all the docs. I accept any kind of criticism since constructive criticism leads to improvement of code and applications but your message sounds a bit that I simply wasted my time since I reinvented something that's available since years, without me knowing this :) As said I'm not upset in anyway but I just want to get the facts right so that people get informed that's the state of art regarding skinnable knob widgets. cheers, Benno http://www.linuxsampler.org