[haiku] Re: Dial widget
- From: Richie Nyhus-Smith <richienyhus@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 19:34:12 +1200
As far as I know, none of these were integrated. There are several
reasons for this, but the main one is that this kind of circular widget is
not very intuitive to handle with a mouse. Horizontal and vertical sliders
accomplish the same purpose and are easier to handle.
I can understand this perspective in regards to an input knob widget, which
is the worst type of skeuomorph and should generally be avoided.
However when it comes to a gauge/meter display widget, although it is a
skeuomorph in some regards, it is quite diffrent as provides a lot of
information at a quick glance. For instance, modern digital car dashboards
still have gauges, even if they could easily display information in some
other digital native manner.
George White's gauge/meter widget:
https://github.com/georgewhite5/bdial
Regards,
Richard.
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