On 06/07/2017 20:43, Black Michael via wsjt-devel wrote:
This was discussed a while ago and those users who were using the
FastGraph wanted to keep the control on the main window.
So...preferring usability over confusion was the result and it was
decided to keep it on the main window.
It will be a teaching process and I'm sure we'll get lots of "slider
doesn't work anymore" -- but the education process is well worth it.
If we took it off we'd get the same questions except "what happend to
the slider" -- still requiring the same education.
The tooltip on the slider tells you exactly what it does. Maybe we
should stick a "THIS DOESN'T CONTROL THE METER ANYMORE" in there...but
they still wouldn't read the tooltip in all likelihood.
Or maybe a splash screen that tells the major differences?
HI Mike,
my experience and that shown in some posts here is that users will still
misunderstand and adjust the Windows audio sliders to get the level
meter around 30 - 40dB. It is a good thing that the level is not too
critical as so many believe that digital gain controls do something
cleverer than simply multiplying or dividing the sample values by some
factor. Clipped cannot be unclipped and in the noise cannot be extracted
from the noise by doing that.
73
Bill
G4WJS.
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