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Beautiful, but, when is this ever the best UX for a control (outside of sound mixers and sequencers)? (I'm expecting/hoping to get schooled on this.)
Cute. One thing that would improve it would be keyboard shortcuts. The editing of the number in the middle feels a bit awkward too. I guess it might make a nice replacement for a slider in certain circumstances.
http://archive.plugins.jquery.com/project/mousewheel (untested)
Beautiful, but, when is this ever the best UX for a control (outside of sound mixers and sequencers)? (I'm expecting/hoping to get schooled on this.)
Knobs are the primary interface in many live music controllers. Check out Ableton live, or the evolution uc-33 to see how they are commonly used. Would be very neat for a web based controller. EDIT: Oops, I guess I can't read
Somehow this became a standard.
20 years of customer confusion and complaints yields this advice: there are at least three common modes for interacting. 1) up/down | left/right, 2) radial (follow the mouse pointer) and 3) relative radial (follow the pointer, but use it as an an offset in degrees of the original position).
The latter is useful for something like a volume control (or any real-world control, really). Otherwise one wrong click and you're at max.
In each mode you want both a linear and logarithmic scaling option. Otherwise you have the "soundblaster volume" problem where all the range is between 0 and 30, and 31 to 100 is largely ornamental.
There's a bonus mode using the number in the middle as a target. If you click and drag on that, you get the up/down mode even if the outside zone is normally radial. This guarantees that nobody is happy and seems to be the alternate standard in much audio software.
Click to activate THEN mousewheel to increment/decrement (again, using the linear or log scaling) is a sane compromise.
Beautiful, but, when is this ever the best UX for a control (outside of sound mixers and sequencers)? (I'm expecting/hoping to get schooled on this.)