KnobMan, the VSTGUI AnimationKnob bitmap generator

[spacedad]

do you need to uninstall the last version before installing this one? or should i now just update it with the zip version?

[asseca]

Just update with the zip-version ...

[spacedad]

ok,cheers asseca.
and thanks g200kg for another sweet update.

[Art60]

Hi Mr g200kg !

Thank you very much for this very quick update.

As you told me to, here is a link to my VuMeter.knob

As you can se, preview is not correct for my clipping led though it is in render.
Not a big bug, can work with it.

LCD font does work ! 1000 thx !
Finaly I think I will use it and instead of putting V, O, L, U, M, E letters aside to form the word, I will tell KnobMan to write down VOLUME word directly, for instance. It will be trickier to localize, but it's the price to pay when font is this italicized!

Thanks again for this marvelous tool !

Best regards from France.

[g200kg]

As you can se, preview is not correct for my clipping led though it is in render.
Not a big bug, can work with it.

hello,
i dont know why but the file downloaded from your link is .png, but can work as knob-file if renamed to .knob (may be IE7 problrm??).

anyway, i got your problem about preview. it is a bug related to frame-mask that i missed. thx.

(i should go on one week bussiness trip to USA from tomorrow. pls wait)

[Art60]

Hi,

the file I uploaded is really a .knob one
I know your files do appear as images in windows explorer, that surely because they seem to be png ones.

I will zip my future files to keep things clean.

Thx ...

Have a good travel !
See you soon ...

Best regards from France.

[kylie]

Thanks for the update g200kg

is there any chance to see .tga (with alpha) export soon?

Man... really, there is GIMP or any other free converters out there

of course. but until now all ways I tried resulted in either manually unstitching or converting all single images by hand (I'm sure somebody enjoys doing 128 files) or ending up with transparency lost when using batch mode.

g200kg already implemented the routine to export single images, so why stop bothering at a point where all formats but my desired one already work, and returning to the painful do-it-by hand routines? I see no real reason here for being inconsequent

if he just had said "sorry, I won't do that" I would have been forced to do so, but he did not...

just tested the new build. export tga does single .tga now, but unlike the .png export, transparency is gone and the color from "background color" is used now. also for the stitched strip. I checked my .knob file with 1.19, the strip exports fine with transparency. so it worked before...
it's sooo close to perfect now...

-greetings, markus-

[brok landers]

markus, +1 .... and i think f it's doable, then g200kg will do it ...

[kylie]

markus, +1 .... and i think f it's doable, then g200kg will do it ...

well, he already did both parts of what I'd like to have. just he had to combine them to make me finally happy.
I'm very sure he will manage that after his voyage. it seems not as urgent as other people's feature requests, and still he went straight on and did it (mostly) in a few days, so I'm convinced to have it working soon.

(the alpha channel is there, but I have to set it to be transparent manually after export. maybe it's just a matter of default settings for the export procedure. as said before, it works with single png images...)

-greetings, markus-

[brok landers]

bugreport version 1.21:

when trying to export individual frames as png with alpha, knobman only does a few, then it crashes. reliably reproducable here.

comes with the following error:



when trying to klick "get technical information" on this error message (the blue link-like text), the error message vanishes ...
this is really annoying, as i need 3 knob positions to be rendered individually (pos. left/mid/right), and i cannot do that ...
am i doing something wrong? here's a screenshot of how i set up the preference to do the rendering:



a fast fix/fast advice would be greatly appreciated!

[g200kg]

bugreport version 1.21:

when trying to export individual frames as png with alpha, knobman only does a few, then it crashes. reliably reproducable here.

hi,

thx for the bug report. that is a bug about 'individual frames' option.
may be crushed if you use 'Individual frames' with 'Alignment'='Horizontal'.
currentry, please use 'Alignment'='Vertical' if you use 'Individual frames'.

will be fixed next release (probably sunday)

g200kg@San Francisco

[brok landers]

ahhh great, thanks, will try ... ! please check the skinman thread, got a small wish, which i'd like you to implement as soon as possible ... i think it's 3 min for you, but brings me forward ...

[g200kg]

Updated to 1.22
http://www.g200kg.com/en/software/knobman.html

just fix the individual frames export related bugs.

[centurion999]

thanks for this great program but:

why these files are different in setup msi and zip?
__________________msi______zip
KnobBrowser.dll ___65024___49152
HorzVert.exe _____115200___94208

on start the program creates an empty folder "knobman" in document folder why?

thanks

[g200kg]

thanks for this great program but:

why these files are different in setup msi and zip?
__________________msi______zip
KnobBrowser.dll ___65024___49152
HorzVert.exe _____115200___94208

on start the program creates an empty folder "knobman" in document folder why?

thanks

just a differnce of compiler version and options. there are no difference about functions.
anyway, it is not a desirable. will be fixed shortly.