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Hi there,

does anyone else miss the presence of this wonderful control widget in max4live?
I would like to plea for its introduction in the "live" object category, next to the slides and numboxes etc. It works great for handling 2 parameters at a a time, and in my opinion is a graphically very intuitive way of "visualizing" 2d data points.
[I'll be working with jitter to find a way to represent multi-d vectors with shapes etc soon].

I would even propose to fuse the 2d control square with max's "z plane" object, to accentuate the concept of a parameter space as a "deviation range" from a specific origin-vector ( a set of "origin" parameters, i.e. the patch's defaults).

All in all I am loving max4live, i dreamed about this for years and finally here it is. thanks Santa!

pictslider ?

Oh, and I love accentuating the concept of a parameter space as a "deviation range" from a specific origin-vector - I always have... I think.

yeah sorry that sounded very pretentious but i couldn't find any other words. my apologies. is it called pictslide?

let me try another approach: how about something that is round instead of square, kind of looks and feels like a joystick, so basically it has a cursor that returns to center position like a pb wheel and it has some sort of crosshair (to avoid mentioning xy coordinates - the idea is you don't have min/min in the bottom left corner and max/max at the top right, but you have something in the middle that can change in different directions, if you see what i mean.

Hope that made more sense

michelebagaglio wrote:yeah sorry that sounded very pretentious but i couldn't find any other words. my apologies. is it called pictslide?

oh no, it's all in good fun, I'm not calling it pretentious, I'm just saying I don't understand

pictslider - mfl should start doing an auto-complete while you type.
best,
Andreas.

thanks for the tip mate! trying it out straight away

Hi there,

as you said, pictslider is a standard max object since the ol' times... I was looking for something like live.pictslider but that doesn't exist yet.

Right now I hooked up a standard pictslider and it works pretty much the same, but with pictslider one could record the 2d data in live, I reckon that's an advantage.

cheers

michelebagaglio wrote:Hi there,

as you said, pictslider is a standard max object since the ol' times... I was looking for something like live.pictslider but that doesn't exist yet.

Right now I hooked up a standard pictslider and it works pretty much the same, but with pictslider one could record the 2d data in live, I reckon that's an advantage.

It's highly unlikely. you can use a pictslider and 2 pattr objects that way you will be able to automatize each dimension independently.

If you wanted to create a joystick-type control and had any facility with Javascript, the jsui object would be the thing I'd be looking at....

thank you for the tips!

bye