On 28/09/10 21:17, Arnold Krille wrote:
When such an audio-gui standard and configuration is developed, I would love to participate. And use it in my apps. I think its a good idea, especially the idea of allowing the user to switch between circular and linear behaviour for round controls. And have that changes affect all apps supporting this "standard".
i prefer to have both available at once. i think galan does this. my need for the linear method stems from using the mouse for recorded modulation, which radial is useless for. (you need to describe a perfect circle in order to replicate the effects of a linear motion) some might argue that no one should use a mouse for this stuff, and they might be right, but i doubt they are offering to buy me a nice control surface either :) (even with such an alternative, linear mouse control is still highly convenient for experimentation and rough sketches.)
Please go on with this, don't bother with toolkits and how they implement graphics, make it a configuration definition, a global / per-user config file and think about some simple libs to give easy access to these configs in all major languages like C, C++, python and maybe some more. (The less dependencies these libs have, the higher the chance of adoption...)
some kind of reference lib could help, preferably a static lib. i hadn't thought of that. but bear in mind that most applications make use of a specific configuration back end. i would expect many developers to be loath to support more than one at once, splitting configuration options across different systems may be a deal breaker. but perhaps only so for the reference lib(s), not the underlying standard so there's no harm in it that i can see. we need input from the community to make it work though. would people consider using it? what control methods do people want/need? (a list of candidates basically) if people are sufficiently disinterested that they don't even comment then the opening question of whether it's a viable or not answers itself. cheers, pete. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
