Music in Bloom: a review about Usine Hollyhock II

nay-seven · Unread post by **nay-seven** » 27 May 2015, 10:38

The English website Audiofanzine publish this morning a cool review on Usine Hollyhock II

Feel free to answer and give them your experiences about Usine and this version on their forum and help us to spread the world !

gd2 · Unread post by **gd2** » 29 May 2015, 05:34

nay-seven wrote:The English website Audiofanzine publish this morning a cool review on Usine Hollyhock II

Nice article.

But here's a quote from it, which mentions exactly what bugs me the most about Hollyhock II :

There are obviously things that could be improved: The animations with the mouse (highlighting the function being hovered on) are too fast, which sometimes makes you doubt whether you are actually where you want to click or not.

Though the reviewer forgets to mention that the mouse cursor doesn't change when hovering above buttons and menu items, which makes the experience even worse...

I'm a new user to HH, so perhaps I shouldn't complain about such a detail (compared to the grand and utterly awesome scheme of HH's functionality), but as a GUI designer by profession this just makes me cringe and shudder every time I open HH. It even annoys me so much -- especially since this is such a basic and well-accepted feature of every mouse-driven Graphical User Interface since eh... forever -- that I can't force myself to getting to learn the application better.

Please fix this so I can start actually using HH.

cheers,
_g

sephult · Unread post by **sephult** » 29 May 2015, 05:57

Have you put this in as a bug report?

Bug Report Page

Thomas Helzle · Unread post by **Thomas Helzle** » 29 May 2015, 09:12

Yeah, I had the same reaction to the mouseovers in HH1 and yes I made a bug report back then

It totally defeats the features purpose so I disable it first thing.
A mouse over makes sense if it highlights the stuff you hover over (as pretty much every website in the world shows) so you know what you will hit when you actually click. The implementation in HH doesn't do that but just adds visual fluff that has absolutely no point.

But even with the quirks, HH is really worth diving deeper into gd2!

Nice review btw.

Cheers,

Tom

loneboat · Unread post by **loneboat** » 02 Jun 2015, 21:47

gd2 wrote:I'm a new user to HH, so perhaps I shouldn't complain about such a detail (compared to the grand and utterly awesome scheme of HH's functionality), but as a GUI designer by profession this just makes me cringe and shudder every time I open HH. It even annoys me so much -- especially since this is such a basic and well-accepted feature of every mouse-driven Graphical User Interface since eh... forever -- that I can't force myself to getting to learn the application better.

Please fix this so I can start actually using HH.

This a hundred times! At first I thought there was a problem with HH. If I hover and the color changes, I expect that color to remain, NOT to "blip" for a moment and then go back. I keep thinking I've overshot the button and move my cursor back.

Even though I know it's the intended behavior now, it still confuses me from time to time, which is really an interruption to my creative "zone".

lapidar · Unread post by **lapidar** » 30 Jul 2015, 16:37

Hi, just checking out Usine Hollyhock2 demo and this is really promising! Very nice tool for experimentation!

I stumbled over the 50% introductory offer some days ago - how long does it stay active?

And yes, this flashing mouseover animation also makes me feel that I miss the target

Would be good if there was an option for elements to stay highlighted when hoovering...
I switched this off in: settings/global/performances/enable mouse animations.

nay-seven · Unread post by **nay-seven** » 30 Jul 2015, 17:17

Hello and welcome Lapidar,

thanks for your kind words
about the price, the 69 € promo price is now the official price for the non professional version,
you can check this post for more details

osha · Unread post by **osha** » 30 Jul 2015, 18:47

Mmm I do not get this hovering problem. Maybe I'm missing something.

lapidar · Unread post by **lapidar** » 30 Jul 2015, 19:26

nay-seven wrote:you can check this post for more details

Thanks for pointing out!

osha wrote:Mmm I do not get this hovering problem. Maybe I'm missing something.

Do your elements constantly highlight when you hover?
I thought that it's ment to be a feature for touchscreen users instead of a bug...

osha · Unread post by **osha** » 31 Jul 2015, 01:09

Well yes I do if I have the Mouse Animations preference set to ON.....

Have you turned it off in Setup?

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