Re: [Audacity-devel] today's interface quirk

[Dave F. <dav...@at...>]

On Wednesday 16 April 2003 12:00 am, Dominic Mazzoni wrote:
> - Have the actual value of the slider based on the tooltip,
>    rather than the actual position of the slider.  So if it
>    says "3 dB", you get exactly 3 dB, not 2.7 or 3.3.
>
> - Same as above, but the slider snaps to every 3 dB.

Either is great, but besides the amplify effect, can we have a way to be more 
precise and manually set it at 2.7 or 3.3 or whatever?  Perhaps a right-click 
on the slider could bring up an editbox, or (like blender does) shift-click 
could give us a cursor right where the value is displayed, except the slider 
doesn't display a value, iirc.

> I don't like controls that have single-pixel sensitivity.
> Unless we want to shorten the range of the control
> (-24 to 24 dB?) then I don't think we should go less than
> 3 dB per step.

Yeah, then the control behaves differently at different resolutions, with 
different mouse speeds and acceleration, et al.  Single-pixel sensitivity is 
only useful, near as I can tell, in drawing and crap, and most useful when 
there's a way to slow down something, or zoom in for more resolution.

Dave

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