On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 17:30, Chris Cannam wrote: > On Saturday 17 Jul 2004 9:46 pm, Jonathan Segel wrote: > > > consider returning to some sort of sliders, they're far more > > > convenient in a GUI, since their movement follow better the > > > movement of the mouse. > > > > i'm betting that the way it actually is manipulated is that drawing > > a straight line with the mouse up or down turns the knob [...] > > Oh no! This subject has just been the subject of a 200+-article > flamewar (sorry, I mean constructive discussion) over on LAD. Are > sliders always better than knobs, or do knobs have their place? Is > it better to operate knobs linearly, or with a rotary mouse motion? > > As far as I could tell there was absolutely no consensus, though it > was fairly widely agreed that (i) neither is perfect, (ii) most > people with an opinion have a _really strong_ opinion, (iii) it would > be nice to have consistency about things like which mouse operation > resets the control to its default, and (iv) people like arguing about > this stuff. > The consensus was that the mouse wheel is the only intuitive way to control a knob with a mouse. The people who disagreed probably don't have a mouse wheel. Lee
