KnobMan, the VSTGUI AnimationKnob bitmap generator

[spacedad]

i see,nice.thanks whyterabbyt.

[grymmjack]

this program is better and better. thanks so much for your work g200k. very generous and helpful. the design of knobman is innovative and dead simple to use. just wanted to say thank you for your efforts. donation sent.

[g200kg]

g200kg... could you tell me which other printf-type %-specifiers does your character generator support?

i found a problem because you mentioned about that
now i just pass formatstring to wsprintf() Win32 API. it will crash if you use "%s" formatting because that need a valid pointer.

anyway, from the document of wsprintf(),
%[-][#][0][width][.precision]type
and many types are defined but i think useful types in knobman are

%c a character
%d signed decimal
%x hexadecimal

and useful optional fields are
[0] for '0' padding
[width] for outputwidth

# probably i had better rewrite string formatting routine without wsprintf() in the next release.

[spacedad]

this just keeps getting better.
i may have to steal some money from my mom's purse to get you a donation.

[g200kg]

i may have to steal some money from my mom's purse to get you a donation.

hey! spacemom! he is plotting evil!! never do that

Ver 1.06
just fixed for avoid crash:
* "%s" on text primitive format string (available forms are described on help)
* duplicate layer of image primitive (thx report Paul)
http://www.g200kg.com/archives/software_knobman_e.html

[de la Mancha]

you're updating faster than I can use this beauty

[_niko_]

Thank you very much for this excellent tool and all the work you're putting into it, g200kg

[brok landers]

quick question:
what's a good font (preferably free) for really small size w/o antialiasing?
any suggestions?
thanks in advance ...

[duncanparsons]

Grymmjack has some excellent small fonts.. I think I d/led them from his site, either that or PM him

DSP

[aciddose]

"what's a good font (preferably free) for really small size w/o antialiasing?"

terminal-6 and smallfonts-7 are both good for very small sizes. smallfonts-7 is actually smaller a lot of the time than terminal-6 if used for strings of characters because it is a variable-width font while terminal-6 is fixed width.

these are the best fonts i've ever seen really. there are a lot of bitmap fonts available out there but at these sizes there really is an optimum use of pixels to represent characters and i think smallfonts-7 and terminal-6 represent that optimum for both fixed and variable widths.

[brok landers]

cool, will try to google them (or are they bildt in xp?) ... thanks for your fast help, acid and duncan!

[spacedad]

i may have to steal some money from my mom's purse to get you a donation.

hey! spacemom! he is plotting evil!!

ssshh!don't get me busted.
thanks for the fixes.

[brok landers]

g200kg, a small bugreport:

knobman 1.06 doesn't save the antialias-state here ...

[iGoA]

@g:
I've tested your tool yesterday and I'm impressed! I expected just a multilayer rotation renderer, but your's is much more. The most important feature is the shading.

I've 2 improvement ideas:
1. Quantisation option for every layer, so that you can render certain layers with a lower frame rate. Use case: If you want to create a knob with a LED-Circle around it and you don't want to see half glowing LEDs.

2. An option to let 2 or more layer use the same shadowing/highlighting process. Use case: If you want to create a part of your knob which should be one part on the same height and should be recognized as only one part. Maybe this breaks a little bit with your structure, but I think it could be done.

[iGoA]

another idea:
3. contour/outlining of the primitives in a choosable color

I've donated a little bit.