Totally agree with Mark's arguments on maintenance. Having a simple UI and complex UI is not such a good idea. It would be better to just not dump complex stuff on the first panel. And this is what I meant about Musician and Sound Designer use cases, I did not mean to have separate interfaces like Zyn has now.
On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Len Ovens <len@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 28 Apr 2016, david wrote:
Agreed, I'm generally a resident of the Knob Universe and now I have the
data to show that people who like to reply to the survey tend towards
that side as well.
For some reason, I find sliders easier to operate, physically and onscreen, but I like knobs for some functions. I find onscreen knobs less easy to operate. Guess I'm weird.
In my opinion... knobs and sliders should operate the same. The mouse moves in a straight line either sideways or vertical. For the same size screen area, a knob can probably _show_ a finer resolution that a slider, maybe 3 to 1 -ish? In other words, the widget's most important goal is to show the control's position. The mouse movement to change that control can be independant of that. One of the early sequencers I used (on an Atrari) just had the numeric value as a widget. Holding the mouse button down and moving it up or down adjusted the value. (sideways may have worked too, but it has been a while :) This did (on such a low resolution screen) allow a very tight control packing.
My favourite knobs are operated with either/or right to left, down to up. There is also no reason a horizontal slider needs to be locked to only horizontal mouse movement or a vertical slider to only vertical movment. (don't knock it till you've used it for a month)
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