Or maybe we should look at it from a users point of view, no?adamtrance wrote: Anyway I appreciate all ideas and comments but you have to look at it from a design/programmers point of view.
Personally, editing those little controls wouldn't be my first choice, but it wouldn't be a bad thing, especially with a re-sizable GUI. As for your questions about all the different options, I think that's rather easy actually. See that whole part on the left side where it says the name of the section? Like Oscillators etc. Ya that huge section that is bigger than most tab buttons? Those would be where you click to change tabs and the mouse areas that look like they should be mouse areas would be mouse areas and would not change tabs but edit the controls. Seems pretty straight forward. Can't imagine someone clicking a filter cutoff knob and being surprised that it moves (if it's a control). Then they just click the huge area to the left to change the tab. Again, not something I'm necessarily saying is perfect, but could be something to think about. I just wanted to express that having oscs completely separate from filters and completely separate form modulation is a bit click heavy for making minor adjustments between the different areas.adamtrance wrote:
Now its a nice idea to make the controls in the tabs changeable, but it will turn into a logistics nightmare. Just think about this, I have to create clickable mouse areas (green squares) for the knobs. But then if I allow knobs to be tweaked people will complain they want to choose filters and all other stuff, so then I have to create more mouse areas (blue squares). I would be forced to do this because it makes zero logical sense to allow only a few parameters to be tweaked, how would I explain that to a user? They would have to understand the whole thing right away. Ok so now that all those parameters are editable how would it work? If you are in the Osc section but want to change the cutoff without going to to filter section, then when you click on the little cutoff, should the tab switch to the filter section or stay? If it says then if you want to go to the filter you have to click around the controls and that would be a pain in the behind. Plus what if someone wants to go to the filter section, but clicked on the cutoff and changed it by accident? then I will get complaints about that. Then people want options for making it behave differently. As you can see it will become a nightmare quickly, plus I can go on and on with all the issues, but I have to get back to the 64 bit. I hope you guys see its too much trouble for something small. The easiest way to solve is to have them as big tabs that convey information and problem solved. I cant make everybody happy.
What about the wavetable menu being made automatable? I'd probably overlook the tabbing if I could map out every control.
