davidjames;377343 Wrote: > > I ran into the same issue using the iPeng plug-in, before I found out > about the ability to pin the volume. Since the control on my iTouch > was so flaky, I was concerned I would accidentally push the volume to > 100 and blow my speakers.
Now wait a moment, that's a different issue and it only applies to the iPeng plugin before version 0.5. However, it's actually ONE of the reasons for the problems in 1.0.4. asymtot, you say it can't be the iPod because the iPod's iPod application (this naming convention is confusing...) doesn't show this problem. Well... that's not completely true. iPhone OS does have a standard control called UISlider that displays a nice slider which iPeng uses. It behaves completely different from the one iPod uses. I'm pretty sure Apple's iPod application uses something else. One of the diferences in behavior is, that UISlider will immediately move to any position on the slider bar where you touch it. Just like iPeng pre-0.5. In the beta test it came out that this is not acceptable and actually most iPhone apps don't behave like this. So iPeng captures only an area around the "knob" and you have to drag that one. It's not just the knob itself, it's a much bigger area but it captures there. Step in issue #2: The sensitivity of the iPhone screen close to the borders is limited, you can see this with other apps and other controls as well. This seems to be a software issue, actually, the problem seems to be that the screen is actually MORE sensitive close to the edges and the software compensates for that. This means, some touches close to the border are sometimes simply ignored, if iPhone decides they are accidental. Now step in iPeng: Due to it's layout, on iPeng the volume slider is actually CLOSER to the edge of the screen than with most other apps. The result is what you see. In my experience it helps to make sure you don't touch the screen with the fingers of the hand that holds the device (even outside the visible area) and especially not to rest a finger at the bottom of the device. I'm looking for solutions, but since "increase capture area" and "move up detection chain to improve sensitivity" are pretty much through, my current favorite is to swap the volume slider with the "Power/Skip/Play" buttons, those are bigger and a missed hit may not hurt as much. Opinions? -- pippin --- see iPeng at penguinlovesmusic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55514 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
