stretching: give some visual indication that the mouse (after clicking it down) is 'connected' to the vertical line

[Ivo Oto Hermes]

Basic operation of the stretch adjustments involves dragging the position of the three vertical dashed yellow lines using the mouse. (mini-histogram).

Sometimes a small position shift will give a strong effect, that's part of the fun of using Sharpcap for live stacking.
This has always been working fine for me.

A month ago I started running Sharpcap on a mini-PC (Beelink) fitted on the mount, and accessing it remotely from an indoor Windows PC, using the TeamViewer professional software for remote access. Very convenient, very stable.

One thing however turned up: since there is a small delay between mouse action on the in-home laptop and the returning image of the action (in the Beelink), it becomes kind of trial-and-error to be sure that the mouse pointer will activate the dragging of the vertical dashed lines or not.

Suggestion: give some visual indication that the mouse (after clicking it down) is actually 'connected' to the vertical dashed line. I'm thinking of changing the color of the vertical line to red (activation), or to display this tiny arrows that we see on a Windows PC when for instance changing the size of a window.

kind regards,
Ivo

[admin]

Hi Ivo,

thanks for the suggestion - I will look into that.

Other ways you can deal with this include

* once you have clicked on a line for adjustment, you can use the left and right arrow keys on the keyboard to make small adjustments to the position.
* Drag the line sideways with <SHIFT> held down - that will horizontal movement of the line much smaller than the mouse movement to give more accurate adjustment
* Start dragging on the line left/right, then move the mouse up or down outside the histogram area while continuing to drag left/right. The further up or down you move outside the normal dragging area, the smaller the adjustment becomes relative to the mouse move.

cheers,

Robin

[Ivo Oto Hermes]

hoi Robin,
I was not aware of these ways to achieve very fine adjustments, have tested them right away, looks very useful !

By clicking a vertical line and then using the arrows, I can easily detect whether or not that vertical line has been activated for tuning.

So my suggestion belongs more to ergonomics in UX design than to functional increments.

I see that the connection of the vertical line with the arrows stays active even when the mouse cursor is far away from that vertical line,
it stays active until the next click of the mouse in SharpCap, even when the mouse has been clicked and used in another application on the PC and then returns to SharpCap.

So my suggestion stays: hi-lighting in some way the vertical line in the histograms, the vertical line that is connected to the arrows.

In some other fields in Sharpcap I see that the colour of blue is used to show values that are selected using up-down arrows (zoom factor, selection of focusing method). So to keep things consistent: hi-lighting in blue colour the vertical line that is temporary connected to the arrows.

kind regards, and thanks for that very useful SharpCap application,
Ivo