30 Apr
2016
30 Apr
'16
2:35 a.m.
On Friday, April 29, 2016 10:33:47 PM EDT Thorsten Wilms wrote:
On 29.04.2016 08:53, Tim E. Real wrote:
Wow, those are very nice.
I like that the primary eye-catching part of the 'bar' is /below/
the text while the part /behind/ the text is more gentle, subtle,
allowing the text to dominate.
I really struggled with that, and am still not quite happy.
My bar colour is solid throughout the bar and I had trouble
making the text stand out.
Our default font for our strips is 7 pt (adjustable).
Pretty small, so that we can fit a lot of strips in the mixer.
I had to resort to some tricks.
Since many distros have now disabled all bitmapped fonts just
to satisfy certain applications, it looks very dim and weak
at that size.
So I had to force the use of a Sans aliased font there (adjustable).
It's brighter and sharper.
I also used text shadowing (draw it twice) so it stands out.
Seems that out of /all/ the fonts on my system, Sans was the
only one that looked even remotely good at an aliased 7 pt.
Thanks very much for the tips!
Tim.
We now have MusE-3 with horizontal Compact
Sliders.
The text is inside the slider like Ardour.
Since it's gathering dust otherwise, I may just throw this exploration
on sliders and knobs in:
http://i.imgur.com/7TmBmp9.png
There's color coding for in-negative range, exact-zero,
in-positive-range and maximum (the negative extreme is missing!). 