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@thcilnnahoj wrote:

Could you give a reason why you separated the color strips from the tracks like this? In my opinion, it just makes it seem like they don’t belong together. Besides, the rounded corners on mini-mixer strips make me think of towers in Islamic architecture. 😉 Also, it looks, um, weird now when you don’t use vertical meters on track headers.

In the latest beta, the 1-pixel gap between the group bar and the header is toned down. In 2.35 and previous releases, the separation between the two was made by painting a 1-pixel drop shadow on top of the left side focus frame. What I didn’t like about that was that the left side of the the frame did not appear identical to the right side. The problem became more apparent with the new 1-pixel rounded corner.

– Are you going to switch to using rounded corners on most other interface elements, too? Just my opinion, but mixing the two (or even three) styles doesn’t go very well. Also, what about scrollbars?

In this case I assume you mean the 1-pixel rounded corner, and not the adjustable button roundness. I intend to make most other clickable areas use the 1-pixel rounded corners. What about the scrollbars?

– Why did you decide to keep button and scrollbar size separate? It would seem natural that they’d be resized together.

Some users, myself included, always use mouse shortcuts for zooming and scrolling, and so the scrolbars only serve as visual indicators. In that case it’s nice to keep them smaller than regular buttons. On a touchscreen interface it may be more relevant to increase the scrollbar size so that they are the same clickable size as buttons.

@thcilnnahoj wrote:

– I think a logical consequence of mixer strip resizing is that the BSMR buttons should just be centered when they are drawn on top of the meters. I’d say this should also happen on MIDI tracks (that have no meters).

They are now centered. Note that the pixel width of meters are uneven, and buttons are even, so they cannot be centered exactly above the meter.

I was thinking more of centering them inside strips, not around the meters, unless the minimum size strips themselves have an uneven width.

The meters are centered horizontally in strips, so centering the BSMR buttons will make them appear centered above the meters. I was just pointing out that the buttons will appear to be a pixel misaligned, due to even/uneven pixel widths. And yes, mono/stereo strip widths are always uneven, to ensure meters are center aligned.

There is a new beta3 up. I’ve rolled back some of the changes I made in the previous betas.

The menu buttons are now rounded corner, instead of rectangular. The old larger drop shadow is restored in the inspector rack, and on the BSMR buttons. I’ve kept the smaller shadow on the chain panel controls in the track headers and mixer strips. The old focus frame is restored in the mixer.

Furthermore in beta3:

Added “show frame around focus track” option to the mixer region dialog.

Fix: Resizing the channel header panel in the sound editor did not update the wave display area.

Please give it a try, and let me know if there still are some design issues that needs tweaking.

@druid wrote:

So, before I start, I will say that I use a 40″ LED TV screen, full HD (1920×1080) and my eyesight sucks, so I have Windows 7 set to … 125% text size, I think. Windows 7 then increases the size of most text, scrollbars, icons etc. You *could* look at this in Windows also, to determine how you should size the interface. It would allow Podium to be more compatible with general system settings.

I could understand why you might not want to bother with such a thing, but as a steadfast user of larger-than-100% font/scrollbar/icon/etc size in Windows now (on my laptop too) it’s sure nice when other programs, like internet browsers, recognise this setting and render the text larger for me too.

Currently only the button size is scaled with the new adjustable setting. In a future update I’ll experiment with scaling font sizes.