GUI idea suggestion offer even :)

unkargherth · 5 May 2005

Impressive Nu ( let me use the short from of your nick)

For the Graphics /control repository, by now you could check the Examples forum. Thre are some there, and for sure, more to come

Nu Audio Science · 5 May 2005

Cool if its just done by posting in the examples i'll just do that and not bother with a site 😉 Nu or NAS is cool, Well just call me anything you like im used to it 🙂

infuzion · 5 May 2005

I like the red-LED retro look. For other examples I personally dig, I really like BetaBug's GUIs; very clean yet funky. ohmforce keeps it fun yet professional.

Nu Audio Science · 5 May 2005

Yeah my styles are normally a lot more funky but with Wusik you only have limited space for a LOT of controls 🙂

infuzion · 5 May 2005

heh, yea I can see how feature creep would push me into putting alot of controlls also 🙂 Ohmforce has an effect that you could "pop open" the inside of the panel to access more fine-tuning controlls "underneith". I always wanted to mimic that.

Nu Audio Science · 5 May 2005

Yeah i do that on a couple of my SE synths, I had a button that popped open a new panel for changing the color of the LCD, Pointless but fun 🙂

malc · 5 May 2005

Hi NAS,

Wow, very nice indeed!

The answer to your question about the knob is yes 🙂. Check out the following thread: bitmap-strip based knob - possible?

And the example from that thread: http://www.btinternet.com/~sephid/stuff/KnobStrip.osm (thanks to Shif for this)

On the repository issue, mindplay is working on a section for our site for storage of modules and examples. Hopefully we can get that up and running in the near future.

Thanks,

Malc.

Shifrin · 5 May 2005

Very nice GUI's there NAS, funnily enough I skinned WusikStation myself (grey/orange style, available on the Wusik site *plug* *plug*)

Shif.

Nu Audio Science · 5 May 2005

Yeah they aren't just GUIs though they are actually Wusik engine with about ten thousand presets 🙂

Hey Shifrin i think i use your skin for EXT also 🙂

edit* Just checked out those links Shifrin you the man and you also share your name with my favourite musician Lalo Shifrin 🙂

Nu Audio Science · 5 May 2005

So is that a png with alpha ? Shadows work OK ? What sizes do people want ? Anybody know of good png stitchers, Im used to trent stitch ? (Just about to try Nials) Is there a maximum size ?

Sorry for all the Qs 🙁

db · 5 May 2005

Nu Audio Science wrote: Cool if its just done by posting in the examples i'll just do that and not bother with a site 😉 Nu or NAS is cool, Well just call me anything you like im used to it 🙂

Just don't call him Old Audio Science, he hates that! <lol!>

Nu Audio Science · 5 May 2005

🙂

infuzion · 5 May 2005

db wrote: Nu Audio Science wrote: Nu or NAS is cool, Well just call me anything you like im used to it 🙂

Just don't call him Old Audio Science, he hates that! <lol!>

I have some DJ friends that go by "8track Maffia" 😉 Now all we need is "Phonograph Gansters"

Tom7777 · 5 May 2005

Hi, Nu Audio Science and infuzion welcome to the SM forum (a bit late to say that i guess) 🙂

You can do all of this in SM yes and much more advanced too, the best format to use is PNG and transparency can be used, there is now the option for alpha on the bitmap module now so that can be used in various ways. Shadows can be used too, just set the background to transparent (depending of the software) and it should be fine. My About Box V1 example used transparent PNG graphics for the GUI but i did not spent that much time on it.

Nu Audio Science · 5 May 2005

Just about to go and try your about box 2 I was wondering if the method you used on that could be converted perhaps to create popup tooltips ?

Obviously they would have to be switchable or would become annouing 🙂

Shifrin · 5 May 2005

Nu Audio Science wrote: Hey Shifrin i think i use your skin for EXT also 🙂

Small world init 😉

Nu Audio Science wrote: edit* Just checked out those links Shifrin you the man and you also share your name with my favourite musician Lalo Shifrin 🙂

Yeah I do love his (Lalo Schifrin) music, hence the nick 🙂

Nu Audio Science wrote: So is that a png with alpha ?

Yes!

Nu Audio Science wrote: Shadows work OK ?

Yes!

Nu Audio Science wrote: What sizes do people want ?

Haven't a clue!

Nu Audio Science wrote: Anybody know of good png stitchers, Im used to trent stitch ? (Just about to try Nials)

Tobybears StitchStudio is the 'bomb', stitches .png's great with a bunch of useful options too :- http://www.tobybear.de/p_other.html

Nu Audio Science wrote: Is there a maximum size ?

Not that I'm aware of!

Shif.

Nu Audio Science · 5 May 2005

Cheers Shif

I'll go grab that stitcher now

Cheers

Tom7777 · 5 May 2005

I was wondering if the method you used on that could be converted perhaps to create popup tooltips ?

Yes basically i uses switches (selector,multiplexer) to do everything important, you can do a lot of stuff if you think "how can i do that with whats available?" and then just try any ideas you have. If a module is not there then just request it and it might get added sometime. I asked for the Mouse Over module and a few other things and they are now in the program which is great. With a few more modules i could make a RPG game like FF6 in SM if i wanted although i probably would not be bothered becuase im much more interested in sound design. 🙂

Nu Audio Science · 5 May 2005

Sorry about all the questions Tom I'll calm down soon 🙂

Tom7777 · 5 May 2005

Its cool, I had a lot too when i first started using SM, now i use it every day and im very used to the way it does things now, it is much better than SE i think which i used to use and now never do becuase i think SM is much better.