On Mar 25, 2009, at 3:03 AM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
--- On Wed, 3/25/09, Steffen Juul stffn@dibidut.dk wrote:
From: Steffen Juul stffn@dibidut.dk Subject: Re: [PD] default [output~] in Pd-extended To: "Pd List" pd-list@iem.at Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 7:48 AM On 24/03/2009, at 18.10, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Scrolling in a number box is not a standard GUI
interaction, and not particularly intuitive.
So thats the initial reason. Chancing the numberbox to a slider could live together with not making the colour changes i opposed to (- i shall not repeat it).
Actually, could you repeat it? I searched the thread and couldn't
find any remarks about the color.If your point is that the tutorials are completely black and white,
and that having a gop abstraction with colored gui's would be
distracting-- I've thought about that, too. But if that turns out
to be the case it's a simple fix of just changing the slider and bng
back to white (but maybe leaving the dsp-indicator green so you can
quickly see if it's on or not).
Pd-extended is now setup to use a version of this with very tamed
color (attached). I think its important to have the GUIs something
other than white to make them look solid and clickable. But yes, too
much color would be distracting. Some color also attracts the eye
just enough so that people know that its important, because really,
without turning on the output~, the rest of the patch is kind of
useless.
.hc
Also I've meet Pd sliders i could not recognize as sliders for a while. As a total it took me longer to learn sliders then numberboxes, since the looks of sliders can be altered so much.
I rest my case, I don't think i get through.
Happy hacking.
Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
Mistrust authority - promote decentralization. - the hacker ethic