Re: examples: RaphaelJS UI combined with MIDI... [via Web Audio Developers Community Group]

nice demo :) .
I have just a little hint.
if you plan to have huge no of animated knobs etc i would probably go for canvas instead of raphaeljs.
This decision especially in this early phase it can save you a lot of rewriting later.
raphaeljs uses svg which done in sw and is thus order of magnitude slower.
http://jsperf.com/html-vs-svg-vs-canvas/2
 that is big deal on tablets and mobiles where every bit of cpu counts.
for example all raphaeljs demo animations transitions were jerky on my ipad 2 whereas canvas based ones were fluid since they were hw accelerated offloading cpu.





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On Feb 22, 2013, at 11:14 AM, James Ingram <j.ingram@netcologne.de> wrote:

> Hi Peter,
> 
> I tested your page yesterday evening, and again this morning. It seems to be behaving differently every time I look.
> It would be helpful if you could let us know a) when you have a stable version you'd like us to see, or b) if there's a problem you can't solve on your own.
> 
> I'm interested in seeing how you are using Raphael JS to create knobs and buttons, but its a bit frustrating testing other people's unfinished work. I've got enough unfinished stuff on my own plate as it is... :-)
> 
> all the very best,
> James
> 
> 
> On 21.02.2013 18:15, Peter Nyboer wrote:
>> Thanks much...as it is a work in progress, things get broken on occasion :) Thanks for the heads up - I think I had a function call to a non-existent function. Oddly, the developer tools in Safari weren't giving me an error, but it's fixed now.
>> Peter
>> 
>> 
>> On Feb 21, 2013, at 1:03 AM, James Ingram wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Peter,
>>> 
>>> Something seems to have changed recently. I tried your page [1] when it appeared on the Jazz site at [2] on Tuesday, and it seemed to be working fine.. But now its not.
>>> 
>>> The MIDI Input menu contains
>>> 
>>> -  not connected,
>>> -  my sound card (TS22 PCI MIDI), and
>>> -  my MIDI keyboard (E-MU XBoard49),
>>> 
>>> but the keyboard can't be selected. All I can select is the sound card, but the way I'm set up I can't input to that directly.
>>> The dials no longer work as they did (yesterday, or a couple of days ago). Clicking and dragging up-down has no effect.
>>> The buttons seem to work as LEDs -- at least they turn on and off and echo to the monitor panel -- but I'm not sure if they are supposed to do anything else. When clicked individually, they display 1 for on and 0 for off, but clicking "all LEDs on" sets them to 127.
>>> 
>>> What do you mean by
>>>> MIDI out port is the same as the in port
>>> ?
>>> 
>>> Best of luck! :-)
>>> 
>>> James
>>> 
>>> 64bit Windows 7, latest Chrome browser.
>>> 
>>> [1] http://lividserver.com/miditest/
>>> [2] http://jazz-soft.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=109
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 21.02.2013 00:03, Peter Nyboer wrote:
>>>> I've put up some example of knobs and buttons done in Raphael JS (with a smidgen
>>>> of jquery), designed around my work with Livid controllers:
>>>> http://lividserver.com/miditest/ The UI elements send MIDI and respond to MIDI.
>>>> There are a few of quirks: - buttons are toggles by default - MIDI out port is
>>>> the same as the in port - the [...]
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