audio related widgets

[vlappa]

Saw the zigshowtime which made me interested in dvui, nice work.

It might be nice to have some audio related widgets.

Like a horizontal and vertical slider. A grid, push button, dial buttons.

[david-vanderson]

Thanks!

The existing dvui sliders I think are functionally equivalent, just different visually. The button is almost the same. For those we could add extra options that control more about how it looks. PRs welcome!

I don't have a good idea how dial buttons are supposed to work. There's no good equivalent mouse/keyboard interaction to twisting a dial. I've seen programs where visually it's a dial but functionally just a horizontal slider. Are there better ways for that to work?

[vlappa]

Yes, the sliders looks good.

Pure Data (pd) is a audio visual programming language and provides some basic widgets which might be indicative of what could be needed.

For instance it has a 'bang', which is a button which you select, but 'releases' itself right away, as contrary to the 'toggle' knob which keeps being selected after clicking on it. I found the toggle type in the dvui demo, but not the 'bang' equivalent yet.

https://youtu.be/CDDnhvxnSDQ?feature=shared&t=22

I think you've dial buttons which you can set with the mouse and to make small adjustment you've to press SHIFT along with the mouse button... Ok, I did launch the softsynth on Linux called Zyn-fusion or zynaddsubfx. You can drag the dial button with left button and move the mouse, or use the scrolling wheel and indeed if I press SHIFT it moves small steps.

I've also tried to turn such a dial in Ardour DAW, it works the same (all though that particular button shouldn't do small steps with SHIFT pressed).
A other dial (from a audio plugin) shows the value when turning the knob.

Sometimes it would be useful to be able to set the value also with keyboard probably, maybe with a right click and then you get the option to enter a value or so.

[vlappa]

By the way, if I'm not mistaken, these audio related projects uses immediate gui (nuklear)
https://git.open-music-kontrollers.ch/~hp/patchmatrix
https://git.open-music-kontrollers.ch/~hp/synthpod