On Friday, April 29, 2016 10:33:47 PM EDT Thorsten Wilms wrote: > On 29.04.2016 08:53, Tim E. Real wrote: > > We now have MusE-3 with horizontal Compact Sliders. > > The text is inside the slider like Ardour. > > Since it's gathering dust otherwise, I may just throw this exploration > on sliders and knobs in: > http://i.imgur.com/7TmBmp9.png > > There's color coding for in-negative range, exact-zero, > in-positive-range and maximum (the negative extreme is missing!). Wow, those are very nice. I like that the primary eye-catching part of the 'bar' is /below/ the text while the part /behind/ the text is more gentle, subtle, allowing the text to dominate. I really struggled with that, and am still not quite happy. My bar colour is solid throughout the bar and I had trouble making the text stand out. Our default font for our strips is 7 pt (adjustable). Pretty small, so that we can fit a lot of strips in the mixer. I had to resort to some tricks. Since many distros have now disabled all bitmapped fonts just to satisfy certain applications, it looks very dim and weak at that size. So I had to force the use of a Sans aliased font there (adjustable). It's brighter and sharper. I also used text shadowing (draw it twice) so it stands out. Seems that out of /all/ the fonts on my system, Sans was the only one that looked even remotely good at an aliased 7 pt. Thanks very much for the tips! Tim. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
