On December 19, 2015 08:20:51 PM Tim E. Real wrote: > Comparison of current mixer and new mixer design: > > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/53315356/new_mixer_3.jpeg > > Pretty svelte, huh? > > (Don't mind the meters and colours and so on, working on it...) > > Note that both mixers have the exact /same/ tracks, > including four Aux Tracks with their associated > controls on each audio strip. > > But notice the upper current mixer version barely even > makes it onto the screen, swamped by the Aux controls. > > And both upper mixer's scrollbars have long since appeared. > > Yet notice the new lower mixer happily fits everything with > room to spare and /no/ scrollbars appearing yet... > /even/ with one of the midi strips expanded... > /even/ with new controls now added (patch, instr etc.) > > Today I added strip sizing capabilities in the mixers. > You can grab on to a strip right edge and expand it, > as you can see by the expansion mouse cursor as it > sits on a strip border in the snapshot. > > A QSplitter was sadly inappropriate here, so I made a > custom class ExpanderHandle, placed /after/ each strip > in the mixer's layout, and linked with a signal to a slot in > the strip which resizes the strip, plus a signal from > Strip::destroyed() to ExpanderHandle::deleteLater(). > > I will try to upload this prototype soon so you can > pick it apart.
I also have a proposal to make the strips even more compact: I once described how I wanted to make a compact mixer by using only knobs - even for volume where we would make a circular meter surrounding the volume knob. But now that we have these horizontal sliders instead of knobs, the remaining step in making the mixer more compact would be to... make the /volume/ sliders horizontal as well, instead of long-and-tall vertical. Configurable, of course. That way I might be able to stack /all/ of the midi controls, including the extra track info controls (seen in the snapshot), including a horizontal volume and meter just above pan, into one thin but expandable strip. Maybe. It is ironic that there are only 128 steps in a midi volume control and a midi meter (prime candidates for horizontal display), and yet we are putting the slider and meters /vertically/. Also there aren't very many actual steps in the audio sliders, although the logarithmic range could make things awkward if they were displayed in a cramped horizontal space... (BTW I'd like someday to show small meters in the Arranger Track List similar to Rosegarden. Cool?) We'll see, got several things to finish up. Tim. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Lmuse-developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmuse-developer
