Micro adjustment

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Hiii,im trying to create a micro adjustment using the shift modifier?

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iv linked a slider to vertical mousestate while holding alt,i want to have another micro adjustment using shift modifier?

Basically the screen resolution is float and im just adding the relative mouse pos to the value of the slider.I want to modify the new value by a fraction using another modifier?

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You probably used gate to route mouse while alt is held.
What prevents you to use alt + shift to route scaled mouse movement values ?

Maybe you should post what you managed till now.
If I were to do that, I would first use hover to select slider to
operate at, then zero mouse position when gate opens
to add or substract current Slider value, and depending on modifier key either using pixel,
or pixel / 10. or divided as much to meet your "micro" steps.

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sure ill post what i have with some comments.the problem i had switching between the fine adjustment was storeing the values before and after if i just gswitch between them its initialized from the original value and not from the adjustment value so its jumping between the two.I feel like its a simple logic problem, i managed the first part storeing the value once the mouse position reaches the height of the screen but this i thought i need more brain power.




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i cant edit my comments 🤢

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forum posting is pain in the ass sometimes
there are many complains about it.
I guess as usuall things get worse when on wants to improve allready working stuff.

Here is something for you :

Max Patch
Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.


fine tuning is alt+ shift.
You must press mod keys while mouse is over the slider,
It will get assigned to mouse movements till mod keys get released.
Mouse clicked disables the whole thing.

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P.S. I think one should drop the alt - moving slider without clicking it,
that can be anyway done using mouse directly.
But fine tuning is a good function. I would keep only that.
And if you have mouse with scroll wheel,
than it could be used in this context even better

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i tried to be as clear as possible

Selected Params edit_2.2.amxd
amxd 70.76 KB

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wow thats really cool.Yeh i couldnt find any mouse wheel external.

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my patches are wild compared to yours i might have to spend more time on some basics

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I definitely agree about fine adjustments, the option for alt adjustments is to avoid cramps in live mostly.

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on Mac you can use hi object to get mousewheel.
on Windows keyboards and mouse as HID objects do not work
due to system restrictions

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Ah well lucky mac users.hid? Like peripherals

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you can learn java and make yourself mousewheel reporter.

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That could be cool.Never seen Java in Max, Iv seen mxj file extension in explore tho.Thanks