Re: [linux-audio-dev] audiogui

On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 03:45:18PM +0000, Chris Cannam wrote:
> On Monday 26 Feb 2007 23:40, Leonard Ritter wrote:
> > radial is for weirdos with the motor skills of a clockmaker.
>
> Correct! But where have all the radial supporters gone? There were
> enough to sustain quite a flamewar about this a couple of years back.

sorry... for high latency :)

A KNOB WITHOUT RIGHT CLICK RADIAL MOVEMENTS IS A BAD KNOB.
and nobody wants bad knobs.

grrrr... ;)

>
> I prefer linear in both axes (right or up to increment, left or down to
> decrement), so there may be some scope for disagreement after all.
>
> I've been considering making a small library of Qt4 widgets based on the
> ones in the current SVN of Sonic Visualiser -- dial (based on the
> RG/qsynth one), thumbwheel, panner, fader (based on Hydrogen).
>
> They aren't particularly beautiful or consistent to look at -- if they
> were, I wouldn't just be considering it, I'd have bundled them up a
> while ago. But what they do do is work consistently: click and drag to
> adjust, without any inadvertant jumps on plain clicks; double-click to
> open a text field edit window provided by the widget; middle-click or
> ctrl+left-click to reset to default; mouse wheel supported. They all
> (except panner) support attaching a mapper object that translates
> between the underlying floating point values and screen integers, so
> you can use them for things like logarithmic scales and get the correct
> mapping and units for their automatic tooltips and the edit window.
>
>
> Chris

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