Re: [LAU] Sliders and knobs once again, was: Re: ZynAddSubFX Usability Survey

On 30.04.2016 02:34, Tim E. Real wrote: You're welcome! After struggling with label legibility vs making it stand out where the value bar ends, I figured the bar only needs very little height to remain readable, if the contrast is strong. The behind-the-label part only has to show where you can drag on, with the toned down bar making sure everything appears as a unit. The first variant with separate numerical entry area may suffer in the case where after dragging the bar to within the entry part, you might release and try a drag back to the left. Implementing a duration and/or drag threshold could avoid accidental numerical entry activation, but could only hurt on the rest of the widget. It might be better to not have the bar-range extend to within the entry area. This variant here happened because of stubbornness in wanting both maximum length for fine-grained value indication and numerical entry with fewest clicks! BTW, the thingies to the left of the sliders are meant as automation activators/indicators. The very first one is in the no-automation state. Clicking it should show/create an automation track. Once there is automation, it appears as in the second row. Drop me a line, if you would like to have the SVG file. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/