Rack: Menus should scroll if larger than screen

Created on 13 Sep 2017 · 11Comments · Source: VCVRack/Rack

Long lists, like the audio device selection when using a high channel count audio interface, make it impossible to select all the choices.

Some sort of scrolling or multi-column display would be needed for that.

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Athaudia

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Child menus added in 401176d.

Thoughts?
2017-09-26-194002_2560x2340_scrot

AndrewBelt on 27 Sep 2017

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Would also be useful for long lists of modules when more are added.

Maybe scrolling is the best solution?

AndrewBelt on 14 Sep 2017

I guess scrolling would be the best

alfonso73 on 18 Sep 2017

Nested menus, with splits done on first letters into entropy groups. AA ...
CE ... PF .... etc. So you decide the drop down size, sort, place into sort
buckets based on initial letters until buckets have equal number of
entries. Then for sub menu repeat using the smaller number of buckets
spread into the number of buckets used per menu popup. Just an idea.

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jackokring on 18 Sep 2017

for plugins I might suggest nested menus/submenus for Custom Modules, maybe grouped by Author and/or Type

antoniograzioli on 25 Sep 2017

Scrolling added in 4fc5f17cfc9eb33a69b8945a0af5d58faed98601. I'll leave this open until I add submenus.

AndrewBelt on 26 Sep 2017

Child menus added in 401176d.

Thoughts?
2017-09-26-194002_2560x2340_scrot

AndrewBelt on 27 Sep 2017

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Perfect.
Maybe you could think about a "Category" tag for the future, so one could group/sort modules by developer or category (Sequencers, Oscillators, Envelope Generators, Others....)

antoniograzioli on 27 Sep 2017

Probably no to categories. (It's not good to put labels on creative modules!) Yes to searching by name by a key command.

AndrewBelt on 27 Sep 2017

One aditional feature that could be interesting....maybe an additional subdivision for each dev? As sn example one dev could have more than one module "pack" or category of modukes inside its menu?

antoniograzioli on 30 Sep 2017

How about a little fuzzy search box like this?