At 22:53 +0800 04/24/2002, noelle cheng wrote:
>>>I'd strongly advise against it.
>
>Thank you for your advice.
>
>However, if you had a superior who decided that you were required to
>do a certain job, I think you would also try your best to produce
>whatever was asked.
That is true. Contrarily, ideally the 'superior' would also
understand that if one is learning on the fly, as it were, things
will take time, and that making demands for immediate production is
extremely irrational and inappropriate behavior.
>Perhaps you could advise me, then, how do I create volume control
>using the Library palette behaviors and the score?
Well, I'd start by breaking the task down into discrete pieces. For
instance, in order to control volume you need a slider and some code
that responds to the slider's operation.
The simplest thing in the universe might be to convince the powers
that be at your company to spring for the OSCXtra suite from
peghole.com. These Xtras include all types of system standard
components (or widgets), including menus, buttons and sliders.
You could insert an OSC slider in your score and attach a couple
behaviors to it, and you'd be done. (It's not exactly that easy, but
it's close.)
The trick with making a slider on your own is that you have to start
by making the slider itself, and getting it to work in the way you
want it to. Only after you get the slider working correctly as a
slider would you want to try attaching volume controls to it.
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