Thanks, [@AbstractCurves], so what are the [ Skip … ] button and [ OK ] button for then?
Does [ Cancel ] do anything different from [ OK ] or [ X ] in the upper right corner ( which falls off screen, by the way )?
I read the [ 1 >, [ 2 >, [ 3 >, and [ 4 > arrows, I let the mouse hover over them, and I read their pop-up descriptions, they said to fill in stuff, yet stuff was already filled in, so it looked to me like it was good to go.
So … there’s something I should do BEFORE [ 1 > ?
There’s a [ 0 > I missed?
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I think what you are saying is that the oscilloscope is NOT ON by default, so we can play with the controls, but see nothing, then when we turn on the oscilloscope somehow, we’ll see the effects of our playing with the oscilloscope controls.
I suppose I can come up with scripts for oscilloscope presets to apply blind on demand – does your software have a script editor and saver where we can type in numbers for each setting, “… Input frequency fx _.__ fy _.__, Phase shift Px ___ Py ___ …” and so on, so we can bring them back on demand?
I’d never thought of adjusting an oscilloscope with it turned off, not being able to see the immediate effects of my adjustments.
The funny thing is that the [ Real-time preview: ] does show some neat stuff while I’m twiddling the oscilloscope controls, but the rest of the little display windows are blank, the [ Working Area ] and [ Viewfinder ] and [ Presets ] boxes are all blank, but when I click on a different [ Preset ], the image in the [ Real-time preview ] changes, but I can’t save my settings for re-use later.
Yet, when I click on [ New ] image, and then try to save my settings, there’s only [ Save current settings to selected preset ], so it replaces an existing setting instead of asking me to save in my own personal settings gallery suite, so I’ve lost a preset that it overwrote, and I’ll be challenged to find my own preset again since it’s in whatever gallery it landed under whatever name it landed as.
I opens a BMP file and it ignores the contents, not using them as settings for the oscilloscope controls, but as background only, and whatever are the current control settings for the oscilloscope remain … how do I save and retrieve my hard-wrought oscilloscope settings?
I created a [ Custom ] gallery, but I cannot save my settings to it, so what are galleries for?
Oh, first create an empty gallery, then create an empty preset, then save the current oscilloscope settings to the empty preset in the gallery, got it … the background BMP disappears, but the oscilloscope control settings seem to be saved, and seem to be able to be recalled then.
[ Right-click ] [ Save as … ] probably ought to work anywhere, and it should create the appropriate containers needed all by itself … just sayin’.
Folks pound on Google when the search interface adds one more thingy, “… getting a little heavy are we Google? …”, simplicity in service of effective controls, it should not take a series of steps creating other things first in order to simply [ Save as … ].
Just sayin’.
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It looks fun, a cross between an Etch A Sketch and an oscilloscope, but with awkward controls, and starting blind, and having to create empties first before saving oscilloscope control settings, and the oscilloscope image not moving but sitting static.
Currently, the [ Save current settings to selected preset ], and working blind, still seem to obfuscate direct access to oscilloscope controls and empowering us to immediately see the results of twiddling the controls.
And how do I create an output size at least equivalent to my screen, instead of … oh, [ New image (Ctrl+N) ] has a dialog box, we cannot change the resolution after we create something interesting … drat.
This “stumble upon” way of finding features, and “you should have thought of that before you started” way of finding controls is … interesting.
I would prefer to have the math directly scriptable, savable, and retrievable, because for me, the math is the only thing I care about, how the math graphs out, what happens when I play with the math – without a permanent tether to the underlying math, the images have no meaning for me.
And there is no movement, as in a real oscilloscope, AbstractCurves is replicating original 25+ year old IBM PC DOS Software programs, but without the movement, instead, only the equivalent of a static screen-grab.
Yeah, I’d like a full-screen display of the results evolving in real-time, and the ability to set each of the controls to individually random variance, and then sit back and watch the psychedelics, man.
Then arrow back in time, frame by frame, second by second, to grab a screen I really liked, see the math, and save and work with both.
v2?
Thanks for letting us explore this and share.
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( And how about addressing those hits at VirusTotal ? )
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