On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:19:53 +0100 pete shorthose <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. While generally not liking rotary control emulations, when I do come across these I will only use ones with a linear action, the others I find impossible to use effectively. I would also suggest the enhancements that Rosegarden uses. The first is the the action is in fact x+y / -x-y, so that either vertical or horizontal movement works. The second is that if you double click on the knob it pops up a spin box that shows the numerical range, has up/down spinners and allows direct numerical entry. -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
