On a fine day, 01-09-2003, GAmoore@... wrote: > >Instead of your proposal for a custom subdiv-size, I'd like to have > >KC's that let you set a specific subdiv -- i.e. have a KC for /192 > >Thats a good idea. Hey dude, we shouldn't get used to agreeing with each other, okay? :-) >Come to think of it (building on what we were recently discussing about an >audio mixer window that sizes to fit all faders on your screen) - instead of >patching windows to make screensets, how about some kind of custom >desktop where you drag whatever elements you want - for example an >arrange, matrix and >event list - without all the window frames and sizeable to get maximal use of >screen space. Nice idea... Building on that, how about: have the usual windows, screensets & stuff, but in addition have a new window type called e.g. "multi window". In such a window you can open windows of other types (like arrange, matrix, etc). The subwindows in such a multi-window can be zoom/SPL-linked, so that if you zoom/scroll, both the arrange and matrix zoom/scroll 'in sync'. With a content-catch for each subwindow, you could have an arrange with two matrix's, where each matrix shows a different sequence, but they're always properly aligned with the arrange window. Ditto for an arrange with 2 sample editors, or whatever you can come up with. You would be able to split a window in 2 halves (like you can in e.g. Word or Excel) by simply dragging a horizontal/vertical divider-line, and fill each 'frame' (subwindow) with its own window-type -- and of course such subwindows could again be split in two, either horizontally or vertically. This would allow you to create almost any window layout you could think of. AFAIC the window would have no menu bar (otherwise you'd end up with maybe 4 different menubars in all subwindows), but a right-click (control-click) on a subwindow would bring up the relevant popup menu under the mousepointer. About the mixer: why not have a bunch of options to show/hide certain parts of the mixer strips? Like "hide sends", "hide inserts", etc. This would dramatically increase the number of faders you can fit on a screen. And of course, as soon as you show e.g. the inserts, the 2nd row of mixer strips should shift down automatically, to accommodate the now taller strips above it (and the pother way around). And have an 'auto-wrap' preference, so that mixer strips that fall off the right end of the screen, automatically wrap to the 2nd row. Etc. Oh well, this just shows that it's easy to come up with nice ideas. Implementing them probably is quite another story. Although... most of what you and I propose is mostly cosmetic in nature and thus shouldn't be too hard to implement. I mean, it's not as if we're talking about a rewrite of the audio engine, or a new time-stretcher, is it? >Apple has already built-in scalable graphics - you can see them in X >every time there is a blown up icon image. Logic 6 has this too, up to a point -- at least the new PNG icons can be scaled. -- Hendrik Jan Veenstra h @ k n o w a r e . n l Omega Art: http://www.omega-art.com/