Excerpts from Arnold Krille's message of 2010-09-08 00:01:30 +0200: > On Tuesday 07 September 2010 20:20:10 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? > > rotary-movement: Fire up paint. Try to draw 5 perfect quarter circles. And > then ditch that idea completely and forever. The only special cases where > rotary movement works is multi-touch screens or in a limited why when your > "mouse" is a track-ball. > > Make it look like a rotary, make it usable like a slider (that is up/down > _or_ left/right movement). > > And if you really need to save space: Use it like a slider, paint it as a > color-field with the value as number and color... > > Have fun, > > Arnold > That's actually a neat idea, color for immediate visual feedback. I imagine the problem is the colors. What would be sane? I guess three basic colors and interpolate between them? low = blue middle = yellow high = top
It needs to be rather intuitive. I guess the more colors the less intuitive it will become. Maybe two are enough. I wonder which color would best represent 'low' or 'bottom'. Blue, black? -- Philipp -- "Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
