A simple Hive question.

[Weasel-Boy]

I've always wondered why the Transpose pop-up has negative values above "0" and positive below. I just can't shake the natural mapping feeling of: up is up and down is down. Any particular reason why it was done this way?

[Jorgeelalto]

If you mean the Octave and Semi popups, I see the positive values up and the negative down...

[Viktor [TUC]]

OP isn't wrong about this, while the octave and semi menus go the way he'd expect, the global transpose menu is listed in the other direction, so to say. I'd wager a guess and say that in the heat of the battle before the original 1.0 release, we didn't notice the discrepancy, now it "is what it is" probably.
Then again I'm not a dev here, and there might be a technical reason. I can ask at some point.

Viktor

[Jorgeelalto]

Ohh you are totally right, it's also inverted in the transpose popups in the sequencer.

[Ploki]

I think i swapped it in my skin so they all go in the direction you consider wrong.
I went by the logic "Lower value is up". I might swap them all back now.


it's a simple flag in the script to make it the other direction.
Find properties for "Display 2964" in the original skin (hive_orig.txt) and add

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PROPERTY control='Display 2964' name='Value Menu upside down' id='0' value='YES'

in the property controls (bottom end of the script) to invert the global transpose.