[PD] [PD-announce] KnobsAndSlidersDS

Frank Barknecht fbar at footils.org
Wed Feb 28 08:39:46 CET 2007


Hallo,
Chris McCormick hat gesagt: // Chris McCormick wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 11:25:14AM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> > It would be nice, if the sliders would somehow work a bit more like
> > Pd's sliders 
>
> It actually looks four or five pixels to the left or right of the 1px
> line, but you're right it's still difficult. I should make it more like
> Pd and have the option to 'jump' to the value you hit, or have anywhere
> on the slider itself be sensitive.

I thought about this a bit more: Maybe it would be sufficient if the
hit area of the slider's bar would be a bid bigger. "Jump" also
probably is cool. But I'm not sure if it really would good if the
movement wouldn't stop when the stylus leaves the slider area. The DS
is a touchscreen, where the connection between stylus position and
screen pointer position probably should be much tighter than on a
computer screen where the handling is more indirect. Anybody knows
some UI guidelines or best practices for touchscreen interfaces
somewhere on the net?

> > And then I didn't really figure out how the knobs should be used. I
> > just don't manage to move them any more than a quarter turn. I
> > finished "Kirby's Canvas Course" with high scores, so I don't believe
> > I'm too clumsy with the Stylus. ;)
> 
> They work by pressing down and then moving left or right. I guess I
> should make this more intuitive. Do you have any suggestions?

Ah, I thought, movement was either radial or up/down. I didn't even
try left/right. It would be interesting to test radial movement. On a
computer screen this is horrible of course, but it may work on a
touchscreen, see above.

Another widget idea: Multisliders or [table] would be cool.

Ciao
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 Frank Barknecht                 _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__




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