th00ht;684410 Wrote: 
> This seems to be a recurring theme in the SBR forum. What should the
> small and large knob do?
> 
> In other more common physical interface a large knob (typically on the
> right side of a cabinet) is volume. This was true for the the large
> tube-radios of the 50ies and 60ies I grew up with (the large knob on
> the left side is tuning)
> Frequently I find myself idly adjusting volume with the large knob. 
> 
> As this is all in software it couldn't be to difficult to add a setting
> allowing the large, centered knob to do volume and the smaller to do
> menu selection (and something odd as resizing artwork).
> 
> ( I should learn some lua, you know. Really, how hard can it be? )

I think the large knob is mainly used for the selection of menu items
such as character selection when doing a search or station selection
when the list can be very long. It is then easier to 'spin' the large
knob to cover a large list at speed.


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TopGeek

Licenced radio amateur. Electronics/IT engineer. Translator of Dutch and
French to English. Received SBR as a Christmas present 2011.
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