Re: [LAD] Mouse/knob interaction

From: Olivier Guilyardi <list@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Tue Sep 07 2010 - 22:11:16 EEST

Hello everyone,

On 09/07/2010 08:25 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Gabriel M. Beddingfield
> <gabrbedd@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
>>
>>> This is going to stir up a bit of discussion!
>>>
>>> Rotary knob GUI elements - should you move the mouse in a circle to
>>> operate them, or up and down? What about side to side?
>> My opinion...
>>
>> circle: no.
>> up and down: yes.
>> scroll wheel: yes.
>> left and right: up to you.
>
> i like distance scaling - the further the mouse is from the center of
> the knob, the coarser the changes in response to whatever motion
> drives changes.

I like it too, but there always are unwanted changes while you go away from the
center. I think that a good workaround could be up and down with fine-tuning
(eg: Ctrl + move up/down).

--
  Olivier
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