Filled Arc

[grymmjack]

@SMcNeill really sweet. Ableton Live (and other music programs) use these kinds of controls for flat/minimal approach to knobs and dials.

Try to use your arcs as a little sound tool

Here is a plugin my buddy Kieran makes:


See how it uses those arcs?

The idea is you drag up and down on the arc, and it adjusts a parameter.

The arc has a minium, maximum, and default value. Double clicking on the arc resets to default.

You can have bipolar and unpolar types of dials (arcs).

So for example pan which has Left -> Center <- Right, is a bipolar control, with center at 12 o'clock being 0 pan (dead center), while -1.0 is full left pan, and +1.0 is full right pan.
Double clicking it puts it to 12 o'clock with a small line to show that it's still got a value and the control exists.

Where as a volume control has a 0.0 -> 1.0 and as you drag up and down it fills in the arc, with 0.0 being the least, and 1.0 being the most.

In this case, you still want to have at least 1 pixel on 0.0 so you can still see the control when it is at it's minimum.

Typically the arc control/dial has a background color showing the full traversal across the dial in a different color than the value color, a full fg color that is drawn on top.

My challenge to you - make this in QB64PE

You can use the following controls:

STEVE COOLNESS
Min: 0.0
Max: 1.0
Default: 0.5

STEVE RAMBLING
Min: -1.0
Max: 1.0
Default: 0.0

When coolness is MAXed out, and Rambling is MINimumed make a sound somehow, beep, "WOOHOO" or "some stevism.wav"

J/k but i wanted to share you how I may wind up using your work in the future!

IT WOULD BE EXTRA RAD TO HAVE AN SVG version of this @SMcNeill!