Re: [jokosher-devel] [PATCH] InstrumentViewer volume slider patch (SVN Rev. 1519)

[Laszlo Pandy <laszlok2 gmail com>]

It is interesting that you mention putting a popup inside the mute 
button as _less_ discoverable. Because I remember hearing from a few 
users who saw the speaker icon and assumed it was a volume control, only 
to be surprised when it was just mute.

I'm not sure if we can put both volume and mute in the same button, but 
if it were volume I think it would be more useful.

Jeff Ratliff wrote:
> Sorry, don't think I sent this to the list:
>
> The volume slider in this position makes the think of a pan control,
> not a volume control. This comes from my experience with physical
> sound boards though, and a novice may not have this problem.
>
> You could do a volume icon that pops up a volume slider, a la
> rhythmbox and others. If you were really clever, you could find a way
> to integrate it with the mute button and take up no additional space.
> This is less discoverable though, and would really rely on a good
> descriptive icon, or a little mini popup arrow thingy (excuse my
> advanced technical jargon). :)
>
> On 22/06/2008, Laszlo Pandy <laszlok2 gmail com> wrote:
> > Thanks for the patch Tom. This is really well done, and I think it serves a
> > good purpose because currently the volume control is not as discoverable as
> > it could be.
> >
> > However right now the volume slider is underneath the buttons, which looks a
> > little weird. Previously the buttons were at the bottom and they formed a
> > nice straight line along the bottom of the instrument header. Also it makes
> > the instrument lanes a little bigger; bigger than the events are. This is
> > not as big a problem, we can certainly resize the height of the events if we
> > need to.
> >
> > I want everyone to take a look at the screenshot:
> > http://laszlopandy.com/files/volume-slider.png
> >
> > Any suggestions for where else we could put it?
> >
> > (I think there was previously a bug for having a recording monitor
> > vertically against the right side of the header, but a volume slider
> > requires more width and height than that).
> >
> > Laszlo
> >
> >
> > Tom Halligan wrote:
> > > Coded against SVN Revision 1519
> > >
> > > Updated version of the instrument volume slider patch. The volume slider
> > is now part of the ControlsBox. When creating the controls box, you should
> > add a 'includeVolumeSlider=True' to the parameters. For example, the code
> > used in InstrumentViewer.py is:
> > >    self.controlsBox =
> > ControlsBox.ControlsBox(project,mainview,instrument,includeEffects=True,includeVolumeSlider=True)
> > > This means the volume slider is an optional control (for example, the
> > mixer strip omits the volume slider for obvious reasons).
> > > Peace,
> > > Tom
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