The tab from #378 shows a Compressor as an editor. The user wanted it
to look like a device as well, after a brushed aluminium plug-in, with
a meter of the gain reduction instead of the pictures. The tab stays
and is switched to per node.
- Hardware look is a switch under Settings, on by default for new and
existing Compressors. Only the editor reads it.
- The panel is 820x280 px and opens straight in a window of that size.
The window has no sizing corner and no Dock. A pane says so through
`fixedSize`, and `keptSize` keeps the window's middle when it
changes to that size.
- A Compressor in this look never sits in the tab row. Opening one
floats it, and switching the look on moves its tab into the window.
- The panel has chrome knobs (threshold and makeup large), a meter
with a needle that moves like a VU's, an LCD with the name and the
reading, a lever with a lamp for auto-gain, and LEDs for the level
going out. Everything is drawn in code.
- The Knob takes a size and a chrome look, and leaves out its caption
when it has no name, so the panel engraves its own.
- `autoGainOn` is now `switchOn`, because the new switch reads the
same way.
- Where parts sit, the meter's scale, the needle's speed, the LEDs and
the plate's grain are in `hardwareView.ts`, apart from the drawing.
Decided myself:
- The meter's scale runs by the square root, so the first dB is about
as wide as the last nine. It is red from 10 dB on.
- The LEDs light one every 3 dB from -39 to 0 dB and fall by 20 dB a
second.
- Switching the look changes the graph's fingerprint, like any other
setting of a node. The sound FX is built again once.
Findings, fixed on the way:
- Pixi's `arc` goes on from the last point of the path. The meter's
scale had a line from the corner of the face until each arc got a
`moveTo` to its own start.
- A text put into a Graphics makes Pixi warn that only Containers take
children. The LCD is a Container now.
- The first browser check read the needle at one moment and missed the
short sound. The panel keeps the most its needle and LEDs showed.
Tests:
- Unit: hardware-view (10 new), documents (1 new)
- e2e 34 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED, 122 checks (4 new). Played,
the needle reached 20.9 dB and 5 LEDs lit.
- Gate (melektaus-atx): CHECK EXIT 0, 283 files, 4355 tests (11 new)
- Counter-checks: a window that keeps its corner instead of its
middle, and a linear meter scale, each turn exactly their test red.
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