[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] GUI: Activate potmeter

[Hans-Dieter Kosch]

I wrote:
> Ingo Brückl wrote:
>>
>> The Blue skin (you were referring to) doesn't have a volume potmeter (nor
>> anything that rotates). It has only one potmeter (evSetMoviePosition, the
>> blue dots at the bottom of the info area) accompanied by a hpotmeter (for
>> a reason mentioned above).
>>
> Oh, sorry, faux pas of mine. I meant the old default skin ('standard' 
> 1.9), it has that rotating volume pot (intended to be user 
> controllable). Somehow, I've confused the name with the new 'Blue'.
> 
> I'll answer to your response in more detail later (I've also to think 
> about...).

Ok, now I see:

The main source of my misunderstanding was the naming. It's really a general 
meter of some kind, i.e. a measuring or indication element which is of course 
read-only. The term potmeter traditionally stands for a rotary control knob (the 
electrical potentiometer in a radio), just like [hv]potmeter stands for a 
control slider.

The potmeter appears in the mouse handling functions uiMainMouse() and 
uiPlaybarMouse(), what made me assume it's a control element.

The old default skin uses it as volume control knob, which doesn't work in the 
current implementation.

Hans-Dieter