Knobs showing just their current value

[ynohtna]

I was just thinking that it would be great if the knob module had a "show cursor" option - kinda like what Faders have.

Because at the moment knobs always fill in the arc from 0 clockwise, whereas an option to just colour a blob at it's current value would be better when using knobs for panning/balance, bidirectional/crossfader controls, etc.

Does that make sense?

[nay-seven]

Actually no easy,
but using contrasted color for knob background can be workaround..?

[ynohtna]

Oh that's a shame but then, very little is rarely easy in code.

I like your suggestion for the contrast background workaround: could look very nice with the right colours. Although, I've just thought that I can maybe display something appropriate using the shape modules: experimentation time!

[ynohtna]

Well a bit of fiddling around with trigonometry, shape modules, and IML and I've got a nice little custom knob display sub-patch working:



I'm still struggling with programmatically setting colours from fastscript, though.

Does anyone have a Hollyhock code example of either sending a colour (say $FFFF00FF) to a script outlet, or using IML to set a module's colour property (one that is only shown on the module layout page - "SET_LAYOUT" and "SET_VALUE" won't accept colours)?

[senso]

IML examples will arrive soon.