For increasing or decreasing a value, as a user I prefer a knob over buttons - it's generally quicker and you don't have to think about schemes such as speeding up the increment of change as you hold down the button.
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 9:11 AM, JohnK <[email protected]> wrote: > An aside: If that board gets buried in a hard to open box, consider > "gluing" the clear plastic sides on those 3mm sockets. It sometimes doesn't > take very much angled force on the plug [like a cable pull] to pop the side > off. > > John K > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* newxito <[email protected]> > *To:* neonixie-l <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Thursday, October 12, 2017 10:26 PM > *Subject:* [neonixie-l] How many push-buttons for settings? > > My first clock did not have any buttons because there was nothing to > adjust. For my next clock I plan to use 6 buttons. I already made a > prototype of the connector PCB. > > button Menu: navigates through menus, menu numbers are shown on the left > nixies > > button Set: navigates through possible values for a menu, value numbers > are shown on the center nixies > > button Esc: always returns to clock mode > > button Red, Green and Blue: directly set brightness level if in rgb colors > menu. The current level (0-16) is shown on the right nixies. > > > > Example: > > Menu 8 = led mode: > > Value 1 = off, 2 = constant, 3 = hour, 4 = transition > > Menu 9 = led colors: > > Value 0 – 23 = hours, 24 = constant color > > Level Red 0-16 (shown on right nixies if button > Red pressed, press button Red again to adjust to next level) > > Same for button Blue and Green. > > > > What do you think about this? Too many buttons? > > It’s just a hobby, I don’t sell the clocks but maybe I will give some away > to friends and relatives. My experience is that older people (like me) have > problems with multi-functional or timed buttons. I think that the Esc > button is important if I must give “remote support”. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "neonixie-l" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/neonixie-l/2b2be45a-01b3-4fd5-8888-26ea18f64ec6%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/2b2be45a-01b3-4fd5-8888-26ea18f64ec6%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "neonixie-l" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/neonixie-l/C16A22E85C1F4701816007F472970A27%40compunet4f9da9 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/C16A22E85C1F4701816007F472970A27%40compunet4f9da9?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/CAM1F4kT8hYOBCZ6e7amTrtmjbAYB2SSemYiVzkb634aDA_R-Kw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
