How easy is that to use in practice though? With a mouse, and particularly with a touch screen, it's not that easy to do a purely vertical movement without introducing lots of horizontal "noise" that will surely hamper your attempts at fine settings?!
Neil On 7 December 2011 19:32, Paul Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 2:12 PM, David Robillard <[email protected]> wrote: > >> How about using the axis inline with the slider for coarse control, and >> the other axis for fine control? For example, a horizontal fader would >> use horizontal drag as a "direct grab" as usual, but the vertical >> distance would be used as a fine control. >> >> This saves a modifier, and is more discoverable for it (users are pretty >> likely to figure this out by mistake), as well as accurately usable with >> one hand. Could be applied to touch screens, as well. > > this been around in several different audio apps for at least a > decade. just a FYI :) > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev -- Neil C Smith Artist : Technologist : Adviser http://neilcsmith.net _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
