On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 17:28:09 +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote > On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 09:46:36AM +0200, Burkhard Woelfel wrote: > > > > Radial movement on control elements often confuses me.
... > Well, the scaling issue was not obvious to me, I needed to > read about it somewhere, but afterwards made extensive > use of this feature in Cubase. > > I'm going to update the knobs with graphics like you > described (had the idea from the beginning on, but had > concerns about flickering / too much action on the > screen). > > But I think fan-sliders would be the better solution in > most cases. This is an interesting topic, I think I've missed most of it though :( Personally I'm a radial knob kinda guy - I remember using the scaling-by-moving-the-mouse-further-away thing years ago with spiralloops. The other advantage of knobs is that they take up less space than sliders, and to me collectively look more like a musical instrument controls than a bunch of sliders (I don't know where this comes from) I'm not anti sliders as I use a lot of them - although partly because they are better supported in toolkits (I'm currenly using tk (yes tk!)) and I don't have a choice. I like your fan idea Thorsten, but I also think it could work invisibly - ie no need for the transparent overlay. This would take a bit of learning that it was there to begin with - but transparent graphics like that are expensive (yeah, GPU's I know - but its something to keep in mind) and unnecessary after learing how to use the control. It would be good to collect a repository of existing GUI elements in commercial packages - dunno what the legal implications would be, but it would be useful. cheers, dave
