Flex Envelope - No UI control for Hold

[d.healey]

@DanH Maybe there's a broadcaster for this

[Orvillain]

It is right there. Hover over the lower highlighted section and you'll see a horizontal arrow dragger mouse cursor.

[DanH]

@Orvillain oh I see, it's more about operating the mouse in the highlighted stages than on the line, despite there being handles for the curves on the lines as well.

[Christoph Hart]

@DanH there‘s a snippet that shows how to setup the knobs to sync when dragging the flex display

[DanH]

@Christoph-Hart that's perfect, thanks. FYI obj.itemColour3 is missing !

[DanH]

@Christoph-Hart is there a option to customise the pop up text when hovering over a stage?

[DanH]

@Christoph-Hart last thing Perhaps the mouse handles should be an updown arrow for the curve nodes, rather than the hand, since the curve nodes can only move up and down...

[Straticah]

@DanH @Christoph-Hart the flex envelope is essentially missing the spline XY handles to create an envelope in the first place.

From a UX design standpoint:
01 Base level (priority): conventional ADSR controls — Unconstrained handles for Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release, no dials required, easy to read/adjust.

02 Secondary / advanced: spline-shaped ADSR curves with Bezier handles for fine-tuning shape.

Current Issue:
The existing flex envelope design inverts this hierarchy, prioritizing Bezier-based curve editing as the default interaction. (Which can feel slow and constrained for user since base level controls are missing.)

Initial envelope discussion:
https://forum.hise.audio/topic/11509/custom-envelope/19?_=1754988313518

[Christoph Hart]

@Straticah Yes I think the main issue is that weird distinction between horizontal and vertical adjustment (which is hinted by the mouse cursor change). If I change that to allow changing both dimensions at once, then you just need to slap a rectangle at the corner points and voila you have your UX, right?

[Straticah]

@Christoph-Hart exactly

[Oli Ullmann]

@Christoph-Hart
FYI
obj.active does not work. It is always 0.

[HISEnberg]

Just to add to this, laf.registerFunction("drawFlexAhdsText", function(g, obj) doesn't seem to work either....

[d.healey]

@HISEnberg said in Flex Envelope - No UI control for Hold:

drawFlexAhdsText

You're missing an r