Am Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:06:44 +0900 schrieb Carsten Haitzler (The
Rasterman):
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 08:51:02 +0100 Stefan Schmidt
> <ste...@datenfreihafen.org> said:
>
> > Hello.
> >
> > On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 09:59, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> > >
> > > is that meant to be touch driven, or "hardware dial" driven?
> >
> > If I'm not mistaken the pictures have been from an Audi MMI system
> > and they use a hardware dial easily available for the driver. So
> > the part you can see here is only the visual feedback. (IIRC Audi
> > did some extensive research to compare this hardware dial concept
> > with other input system like a touchscreen and the hardware dial
> > showed way less cognitive load. But its some time that I heard
> > about it in some psychologie car UI courses). BMW has something
> > similar with iDrive.
> >
> > But back to the technical UI problem at hand. I would also expect
> > that the widget would be more like and index and not like the volume
> > slider. While both have the "round knob" design this one selects
> > from dynamic content like an addressbook or streetnames for
> > destinations. You can't use static images, like used for the volume
> > slider knob, for this.
>
> yup - that's what index does.. but it's not round. what i'm thinking
> here is this:
Never though of index widget, because of it's list look in the default
theme. But need to look deeper into examples.
> 1. andreas - u want index. you just want to augment its behavior so
> you can glue it into "key events" to drive it (when focused) that
> would come from such a knob (or up/down/left/right arrow keys etc.)
> 2. offer another layout option other than vertical or horizontal. this
> unfortunately has to be in the widget as it maintains the dataset
> displayed.
At least I'll start to play with index widget. Good hint. Thanks!
regards
Andreas
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