On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 02:09:08PM +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > Tim Hockin: please elaborate about velocity sensitve knobs like > used by OhmForce.
When you move the mouse slowly, you get very fine control. When you move it faster, the control gets coarser. So you can move a knob from 0.0 to 1.0 quickly with a fast mouse gesture, or you can move it from 0.5 to 0.6 very slowly. > For those who think radial is bad: in that case knobs shouldn't > be used at all! (Tim Hockin: it makes no sense to disagree to a > half sentence/meaning!) Popping up a slider doesn't help much, > the nature of the control should be clear right away. I'm still going to put my bet on linear. If you do a usability study of linear vs radial, I bet linear will be more obvious and easy to control. And you will not convince me otherwise until I see a usability test done with non-LAD users :) > Oh, and about linear needing 2 directions, up/down for gain > and right left for pan (Uwe): Sure. And the widget has > to be clear about that in advance. This is such a bad idea, unless the control is an X/Y control to start with.
