On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Albert Santoni wrote:
> The mouse and joystick code inside Mixxx is totally unmaintained at
> the moment. If you're not familiar with the mouse code, it attempts to
> use the motion of a mouse hoving over a turntable to do ad-hoc vinyl
> control. It's a cool idea, and I played with it once about 2 years ago
> but I couldn't get it working properly. To date, I've never heard of
> anyone else trying it.
The very first thing I used in mixxx was beat matching by
dragging in the waveform display! It worked fairly well (hard
on your left-click finger :-) until I got the Hercules... I
thought it was a good interface -- assuming you have no external
controller.
> For these reasons, I think we should deprecate the mouse and joystick
> controls for the time being, and remove the mouse stuff from the
> preferences dialog. The less (unmaintained) code we have, the less
> bugs we're going to have. I'd also like to take the stuff related to
> mouse/joystick control off the main website, since nobody even knows
> if it still works.
Sigh, my opinion, probably a good idea to comment it out or whatever.
my mantra is:
reliability > features
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