Just launched the new beta. Love the inspector. Much needed feature.
seems to me that you could quite feasibly incorporate the entire inspector window into the main window.
I agree... Every other control in DB is nicely contained in the main interface. The floating window seems out of place. I realize lots of other major applications use floating windows/palettes, but this just doesn't seem to jive with what's already happening with DB. Other thoughts, maybe a sliding drawer? On Jun 12, 2005, at 11:50 AM, Sage wrote:
I had envisioned the velocity slider on the main window, next to the volume and tempo sliders... but now that I look at it, it seems to me that you could quite feasibly incorporate the entire inspector window into the main window. Why not just give it its own space at the bottom of the main window?
I've attached a screenshot showing where the inspector controls could go, though I think they'd be placed better between the "Drum Kit" panel and the "Sections" panel. You could even show/hide it via a menu option, if you didn't want it taking up valuable screen real estate.
Floating windows seem, to me, to be the antithesis of Macintosh design simplicity -- the floating window will always be covering something. Giving it a dedicated space keeps you from having to move it around to get to whatever's under it. Does anyone else agree?
On Jun 9, 2005, at 5:38 PM, Ben Kennedy wrote:
Hey folkses,
A new build is now up at <http://www.doggiebox.com/distribution/ Doggiebox-1E10.tbz>. Improvements this time around:
- You may now insert more than one bar at a time by option-clicking the "Insert Bar" button in the inspector, or hitting cmd-option-shift-I. A field will reveal in the inspector palette prompting for the number of bars. - New slider in the Inspector panel for choosing the default velocity of new drums added to the pattern editor (requested by Sage). - Improved behaviour with Paste; also, new Paste Over command. - Discontiguous beat selection (temporarily disabled in last build) is now working again.
There are a number of bugs which I have acknowledged but not yet fixed (e.g. several that Håkon pointed out regarding weird tempo problems when inserting multiple 6|8 bars and so on). I will investigate these soon.
Also, the fine folks at MacZealots posted last weekend a wonderful Doggiebox review (based on the last beta). Check it out at <http:// maczealots.com/reviews/doggiebox/>.
-ben
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