Topic: Possibility to adjust controls by mouse wheel on mouse over

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  • #1918
    thcilnnahoj
    Participant

    Is this something you have considered adding to the (distant) future plan, Frits?

    I’ve been playing with Addictive Drums recently and it’s really comfortable working this way (just hover over any knob or fader and scroll away). I think it’d be great if Podium could someday benefit from this, too.

    #15007
    UncleAge
    Participant

    …with a modifier key for making adjustments in small(er) increments…

    #15009
    rinxai
    Participant

    +1

    good ideas

    #15013
    Zynewave
    Keymaster

    @thcilnnahoj wrote:

    Is this something you have considered adding to the (distant) future plan, Frits?

    Yes, but it can be a bit tricky considering that mouse-wheel is already used for scrolling/zooming. Say for example you use mouse-wheel to scroll the track list up/down. What happens if during the scrolling a gain/pan slider moves under the mouse. Should the mouse-wheel then start moving the fader instead? Similar problem in the mixer.

    #15018
    thcilnnahoj
    Participant

    @Zynewave wrote:

    Should the mouse-wheel then start moving the fader instead? Similar problem in the mixer.

    It shouldn’t, imo, but it’s indeed tricky, as scrolling is most likely not one continuous motion. Maybe it’d work best if you could only scroll on the timeline, and no longer over the tracks.

    Or somehow disable ‘hover-selection’ of controls during scrolling and re-enable it only after the mouse has been moved again after the user has stopped scrolling. Not sure if it would work, but I for one never move the mouse during scrolling, as far as I can tell.

    I don’t see this problem with the mixer, though. I can’t imagine anyone using the lowest ‘region height’ setting, so you’ll never have to scroll vertically. For horizontal scrolling, holding shift is required and I’d say that switches the scroll wheel into a mode that should ignore everything the cursor might pass over.

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