17 Jul
2004
17 Jul
'04
10:16 p.m.
On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 17:30, Chris Cannam wrote:
On Saturday 17 Jul 2004 9:46 pm, Jonathan Segel
wrote:
Oh no! This subject has just been the subject of a 200+-article
flamewar (sorry, I mean constructive discussion) over on LAD. Are
sliders always better than knobs, or do knobs have their place? Is
it better to operate knobs linearly, or with a rotary mouse motion?
As far as I could tell there was absolutely no consensus, though it
was fairly widely agreed that (i) neither is perfect, (ii) most
people with an opinion have a _really strong_ opinion, (iii) it would
be nice to have consistency about things like which mouse operation
resets the control to its default, and (iv) people like arguing about
this stuff.
The consensus was that the mouse wheel is the only intuitive way to
control a knob with a mouse. The people who disagreed probably don't
have a mouse wheel.
Lee
consider
returning to some sort of sliders, they're far more
convenient in a GUI, since their movement follow better the
movement of the mouse.
i'm betting that the way it actually is manipulated is that drawing
a straight line with the mouse up or down turns the knob [...]