Re: Knob styles (was: AU host properties)
Re: Knob styles (was: AU host properties)
- Subject: Re: Knob styles (was: AU host properties)
- From: Richard Dobson <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 00:08:11 +0100
But this assumes that the archetypal habitual computer user wants to scroll
through things that can be appropriately represented as pages. If I am viewing a
soundfile (and hour to hour I generally do a lot more of that that scrolling
through text), that assumption does not hold, and moving the scrollbar to where
I have clicked is ~exactly~ what I want to do!
It is a logical extension of clicking anywhere on the screen to place the
cursor, after all. We have keyboards with Page Up/Down keys, for the other stuff...
Richard Dobson
Marc Poirier wrote:
....
Hmmm, that's interesting, but I wonder if it's really as informative as
you might think it is upon first consideration. Folks who don't use
computers are not necessarily good test subjects for this stuff. It's
true, they don't have the same preconceptions about normal computer
behavior clouding their minds, but they also don't have any sort of
computer use habits. This example is a good demonstration of that, I
think. I disagree that moving the scrollbar to where you've clicked the
mouse is good behavior. It might be more intuitive to someone first
approaching the control with a fresh mind, but it's inconvenient when you
consider the way that a regular computer user will be using such a
control.
At least in my experience, I use scrollbars mostly either for scrolling
through files in a directory listing or for paging through some document
(PDF, text, RTF, some textual document like that).
....
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