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  • yuriyuri Posts: 861
    looks nice, i like the idea...
  • viningvining Posts: 4,368
    Phreak wrote:
    Thats the same as saying that if someone accidently touches the volume up button it will eventually go to the max volume.
    Accidentially hitting the volume up button would be a single push resulting in a single increment. Now if they were to inadvertantly hold the volume up button that would trigger multiple increments but upon release it would stop. With the bargraph if you touch the top accidentially you go to that level with a single push and even if they realize what they just did and tapped the bargraph in a lower location that first command typically has to execute before the 2nd command.
  • ericmedleyericmedley Posts: 4,177
    vining wrote: »
    Phreak wrote:

    Accidentially hitting the volume up button would be a single push resulting in a single increment. Now if they were to inadvertantly hold the volume up button that would trigger multiple increments but upon release it would stop. With the bargraph if you touch the top accidentially you go to that level with a single push and even if they realize what they just did and tapped the bargraph in a lower location that first command typically has to execute before the 2nd command.

    Not to mention that some processors don't like to be banged on that much and I've seen a couple situations where the thing got stuck in the 'too loud' setting before locking up.

    I tend to put the buttons over the fader as well but keep the graphic off to the side. I put a rectangle over the actual button in the 2nd graphic. That way they can hit either thing to get some kind of action.
  • yuriyuri Posts: 861
    vining wrote: »
    Accidentially hitting the volume up button would be a single push resulting in a single increment. Now if they were to inadvertantly hold the volume up button that would trigger multiple increments but upon release it would stop. With the bargraph if you touch the top accidentially you go to that level with a single push and even if they realize what they just did and tapped the bargraph in a lower location that first command typically has to execute before the 2nd command.

    Wrong. If you use an active bargraph and set the range up time to 10 seconds, it takes 10 seconds to range from the lowest value, to the highest value.
    If you press the top portion of an active bargraph it will range up, but will stop immediately when you release it...
  • viningvining Posts: 4,368
    yuri wrote:
    If you press the top portion of an active bargraph it will range up, but will stop immediately when you release it...
    I thought it worked more like a fade in or ramp up feature and not a hold to fade or hold to ramp feature. If that's the case I take back everything I said and thought and humbly appoligize for being wrong.

    If this is the case a 10 second range time up or down as you & I think Phreak suggested is probably more than adequate.

    I'll have to play around with this and see if I need to re-evaluate my views on active bargraph usage cuz this sounds like a useful tool now. I am suprised though that in all the other threads on active bargraph this never came up or maybe it did and I had my blinders on, hmmm. It's like waking up one day and discovering the world really is flat.
  • yuriyuri Posts: 861
    vining wrote: »
    yuri wrote:

    I thought it worked more like a fade in or ramp up feature and not a hold to fade or hold to ramp feature. If that's the case I take back everything I said and thought and humbly appoligize for being wrong.

    If this is the case a 10 second range time up or down as you & I think Phreak suggested is probably more than adequate.

    I'll have to play around with this and see if I need to re-evaluate my views on active bargraph usage cuz this sounds like a useful tool now. I am suprised though that in all the other threads on active bargraph this never came up or maybe it did and I had my blinders on, hmmm. It's like waking up one day and discovering the world really is flat.

    try it, it works :)

    I think the fade feature you're referering to is the "drag" feature.
  • yuri wrote: »
    try it, it works :)

    I think the fade feature you're referering to is the "drag" feature.


    Preciseamundo. B)
  • viningvining Posts: 4,368
    Ok, it does work exactly as Yuri said. I set the range time up & down to 100 (10 seconds) and if I push & hold the active bargraph at the top (range low 0 & range high 100) until it maxed I get this in diagnostics:
    Line      1 (13:38:05):: Rcv'd Level Value-1.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line      2 (13:38:05):: Rcv'd Level Value-2.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line      3 (13:38:05):: Rcv'd Level Value-3.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line      4 (13:38:05):: Rcv'd Level Value-4.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line      5 (13:38:06):: Rcv'd Level Value-5.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line      6 (13:38:06):: Rcv'd Level Value-6.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line      7 (13:38:06):: Rcv'd Level Value-7.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line      8 (13:38:06):: Rcv'd Level Value-8.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line      9 (13:38:06):: Rcv'd Level Value-9.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     10 (13:38:06):: Rcv'd Level Value-10.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     11 (13:38:06):: Rcv'd Level Value-11.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     12 (13:38:06):: Rcv'd Level Value-12.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     13 (13:38:06):: Rcv'd Level Value-13.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     14 (13:38:07):: Rcv'd Level Value-14.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     15 (13:38:07):: Rcv'd Level Value-15.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     16 (13:38:07):: Rcv'd Level Value-16.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     17 (13:38:07):: Rcv'd Level Value-17.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     18 (13:38:07):: Rcv'd Level Value-18.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     19 (13:38:08):: Rcv'd Level Value-19.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     20 (13:38:08):: Rcv'd Level Value-20.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     21 (13:38:08):: Rcv'd Level Value-21.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     22 (13:38:08):: Rcv'd Level Value-22.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     23 (13:38:08):: Rcv'd Level Value-23.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     24 (13:38:09):: Rcv'd Level Value-24.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     25 (13:38:09):: Rcv'd Level Value-25.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     26 (13:38:09):: Rcv'd Level Value-26.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     27 (13:38:09):: Rcv'd Level Value-27.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     28 (13:38:09):: Rcv'd Level Value-28.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     29 (13:38:10):: Rcv'd Level Value-29.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     30 (13:38:10):: Rcv'd Level Value-30.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     31 (13:38:10):: Rcv'd Level Value-31.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     32 (13:38:10):: Rcv'd Level Value-32.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     33 (13:38:10):: Rcv'd Level Value-33.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     34 (13:38:10):: Rcv'd Level Value-34.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     35 (13:38:10):: Rcv'd Level Value-35.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     36 (13:38:10):: Rcv'd Level Value-36.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     37 (13:38:10):: Rcv'd Level Value-37.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     38 (13:38:11):: Rcv'd Level Value-38.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     39 (13:38:11):: Rcv'd Level Value-39.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     40 (13:38:11):: Rcv'd Level Value-40.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     41 (13:38:12):: Rcv'd Level Value-41.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     42 (13:38:12):: Rcv'd Level Value-42.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     43 (13:38:12):: Rcv'd Level Value-43.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     44 (13:38:12):: Rcv'd Level Value-44.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     45 (13:38:13):: Rcv'd Level Value-45.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     46 (13:38:13):: Rcv'd Level Value-46.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     47 (13:38:13):: Rcv'd Level Value-47.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     48 (13:38:13):: Rcv'd Level Value-48.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     49 (13:38:14):: Rcv'd Level Value-49.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     50 (13:38:14):: Rcv'd Level Value-50.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     51 (13:38:14):: Rcv'd Level Value-51.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     52 (13:38:14):: Rcv'd Level Value-52.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     53 (13:38:14):: Rcv'd Level Value-53.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     54 (13:38:14):: Rcv'd Level Value-54.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     55 (13:38:14):: Rcv'd Level Value-55.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     56 (13:38:14):: Rcv'd Level Value-56.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     57 (13:38:14):: Rcv'd Level Value-57.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     58 (13:38:14):: Rcv'd Level Value-58.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     59 (13:38:14):: Rcv'd Level Value-59.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     60 (13:38:14):: Rcv'd Level Value-60.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     61 (13:38:14):: Rcv'd Level Value-61.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     62 (13:38:15):: Rcv'd Level Value-62.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     63 (13:38:15):: Rcv'd Level Value-63.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     64 (13:38:15):: Rcv'd Level Value-64.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     65 (13:38:15):: Rcv'd Level Value-65.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     66 (13:38:15):: Rcv'd Level Value-66.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     67 (13:38:16):: Rcv'd Level Value-67.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     68 (13:38:16):: Rcv'd Level Value-68.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     69 (13:38:16):: Rcv'd Level Value-69.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     70 (13:38:16):: Rcv'd Level Value-70.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     71 (13:38:16):: Rcv'd Level Value-71.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     72 (13:38:16):: Rcv'd Level Value-72.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     73 (13:38:16):: Rcv'd Level Value-73.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     74 (13:38:16):: Rcv'd Level Value-74.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     75 (13:38:17):: Rcv'd Level Value-75.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     76 (13:38:17):: Rcv'd Level Value-76.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     77 (13:38:17):: Rcv'd Level Value-77.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     78 (13:38:17):: Rcv'd Level Value-78.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     79 (13:38:17):: Rcv'd Level Value-79.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     80 (13:38:17):: Rcv'd Level Value-80.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     81 (13:38:18):: Rcv'd Level Value-81.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     82 (13:38:18):: Rcv'd Level Value-82.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     83 (13:38:18):: Rcv'd Level Value-83.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     84 (13:38:19):: Rcv'd Level Value-84.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     85 (13:38:19):: Rcv'd Level Value-85.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     86 (13:38:19):: Rcv'd Level Value-86.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     87 (13:38:19):: Rcv'd Level Value-87.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     88 (13:38:19):: Rcv'd Level Value-88.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     89 (13:38:19):: Rcv'd Level Value-89.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     90 (13:38:19):: Rcv'd Level Value-90.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     91 (13:38:19):: Rcv'd Level Value-91.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     92 (13:38:19):: Rcv'd Level Value-92.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     93 (13:38:20):: Rcv'd Level Value-93.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     94 (13:38:20):: Rcv'd Level Value-94.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     95 (13:38:20):: Rcv'd Level Value-95.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     96 (13:38:25):: Rcv'd Level Value-96.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     97 (13:38:25):: Rcv'd Level Value-97.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     98 (13:38:25):: Rcv'd Level Value-98.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     99 (13:38:26):: Rcv'd Level Value-99.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line    100 (13:38:26):: Rcv'd Level Value-100.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    
    So it sends a level change out for every increment. On the negative side if I'm going straight to the device I'd probably kill it with this many command in this short amount of time. If I'm queueing commands to regulate their delivery I could possibly overfill the queue or fill the queue and have the queue continue sending long after I've stop holding the bargraph.

    If I return to 0 and start again by pushing & holding the top of the bargraph but this time release after a few seconds it does indeed stop like they said.
    Line      1 (13:40:42):: Rcv'd Level Value-1.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line      2 (13:40:42):: Rcv'd Level Value-2.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line      3 (13:40:42):: Rcv'd Level Value-3.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line      4 (13:40:42):: Rcv'd Level Value-4.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line      5 (13:40:42):: Rcv'd Level Value-5.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line      6 (13:40:42):: Rcv'd Level Value-6.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line      7 (13:40:42):: Rcv'd Level Value-7.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line      8 (13:40:42):: Rcv'd Level Value-8.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line      9 (13:40:43):: Rcv'd Level Value-9.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     10 (13:40:43):: Rcv'd Level Value-10.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     11 (13:40:43):: Rcv'd Level Value-11.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     12 (13:40:43):: Rcv'd Level Value-12.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     13 (13:40:43):: Rcv'd Level Value-13.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     14 (13:40:44):: Rcv'd Level Value-14.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     15 (13:40:44):: Rcv'd Level Value-15.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     16 (13:40:44):: Rcv'd Level Value-16.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     17 (13:40:44):: Rcv'd Level Value-17.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     18 (13:40:44):: Rcv'd Level Value-18.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     19 (13:40:44):: Rcv'd Level Value-19.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     20 (13:40:44):: Rcv'd Level Value-20.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     21 (13:40:45):: Rcv'd Level Value-21.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     22 (13:40:45):: Rcv'd Level Value-22.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     23 (13:40:45):: Rcv'd Level Value-23.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     24 (13:40:45):: Rcv'd Level Value-24.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     25 (13:40:45):: Rcv'd Level Value-25.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     26 (13:40:45):: Rcv'd Level Value-26.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     27 (13:40:46):: Rcv'd Level Value-27.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     28 (13:40:46):: Rcv'd Level Value-28.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     29 (13:40:46):: Rcv'd Level Value-29.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     30 (13:40:46):: Rcv'd Level Value-30.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    Line     31 (13:40:46):: Rcv'd Level Value-31.   line-<2306>$0D$0A
    
    The only benefit I see to this is that it acts like a regular up/down button being held with the benefit of having a cut off point (it won't go past the point where it's being held).

    For lighting I definitely prefer having the time range time up & down set to 0. Even the default 2 (2/10th of a second) might cause problems if you could possibly push and release it fast enough and so the sent level turns out to be some mid way point. If I use it with Lutron and have the level issue a button push then the Lutron programming will handle the fade in/out feature.

    For volume the press & hold bargraph seems sort of counter intuitive and would require some text to explain how it functions. Ideally I like to design a TP so a guy walking off the street can use it. Having to hold a bargraph inorder to get it to work complicates things. Likewise after trying the "drag" function I don't think I care for that either.

    At least I learned something that I erroneously thought I already knew but I'm still in favor of up & down buttons for volume control and not active bargraphs. I still like bargraphs and/or numerical readouts for volume display.
  • a press and hold bargraph can be pretty easy to use if your graphic is just a couple of arrows, that look just like volume buttons...it will give the same result at the end of the day.

    I use the drag-style only for 'mixer-style' level control e.g. matrix switchers (on an advanced page away from everyday user muckaroundage), but there's so much more fun to be had with levels than just controlling volume and lights...
  • Spire_JeffSpire_Jeff Posts: 1,917
    Instead of tracking online/offline status of the touch panel, you can add a channel code to the level button and only adjust when the button is pushed.

    For example:
    level_event[dvTp,1]{
    if([dvTp,201])
      send_string dvAudio,"'VOL',itoa(level.value),10,13";
    }
    

    I did not come up with this, but it seems like a good way to handle things.

    Jeff
  • Spire_Jeff wrote: »
    Instead of tracking online/offline status of the touch panel, you can add a channel code to the level button and only adjust when the button is pushed.

    For example:
    level_event[dvTp,1]{
    if([dvTp,201])
      send_string dvAudio,"'VOL',itoa(level.value),10,13";
    }
    

    I did not come up with this, but it seems like a good way to handle things.

    Jeff

    I hadn't thought of that one. I'll try that next time. That should stop the Levels-to-Zero Offline Event.
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