Re: [softwerk-dev] UI

[Reynald H. <be...@op...>]

> Yes, this whole thing sucks and I have not been able to figure out a
> good UI design for it. The problem is that only the area that
> eventually turns blue is actually sensitive to button presses. I
> didn't want a whole bunch of "passive-i-am-NOT-the-endpoint"
> markers. If you aim the cursor hotspot (typically a few pixels back
> from the tip of the arrow cursor) right in the middle of where the
> blue square will end up, it will always work.

Well, the UI is already 1000 times easier with the addition of that manual
and your explanations. As an aside, I think that most of the
alsa-is-too-complicated naysayers would go away if there were some
documentation & simple sample code for that too. 

> you may not know that: right button: sets begin point, left button
> sets end point. at one time, i used arrows for this, but i could find
> no way to hide them properly in GTK. 

> i will graciously accept any UI design suggestions for this.

The first thing I would do (if I knew any gtk) as a band-aid
would be to change the colour or otherwise demarcate the start/end points
from eachother.  I find there is some weird behaviour when then the start
point is ahead of the endpoint. Knowing which was which would help.  

If you are going to keep this behaviour, maybe you could at at least
shade the areas where it is possible to click. I guess I just have to get
the hang of it but I find myself having to repeat-click a lot to
finally change their locations.  

I don't know gtk very well, so maybe this is hard, but maybe clicking and
dragging the enpoints to their desired location would be more intuitive.  

these are just comments of a newbie user, so take them with a grain of
salt . .

anyways, back to looping!

reynald