How to close MIDI menu?

[tedmoore]

Right now there is no information on the screen telling the user how to close the MIDI menu when it is open!

hitting the m on the keyboard closes (and reopens) this menu. m is for "MIDI".

this info should be displayed on the screen somewhere!

[jeanbrazeau]

Perhaps something like this?

[jeanbrazeau]

What are the necessary dimensions for the MIDI and Audio Interface Select windows?

[tedmoore]

thanks for these! having the midi selection be a switch isn't going to work because once it's on the part of the screen where the switch is will be greyed out.

But a button would make sense! that way there's a visual cue as to the fact that changing the MIDI device is possible. Then as you show it can have an [M] next to it so the user knows how to close it (we will put it on the pop-up window as well).

per the dimensions, right now it looks like this (below). the border is ugly (see the weird notches at the corners?). I could get rid of this by not doing the rounded corners, or a few other ways perhaps. the font renders kind of weird to me, so i might forgo the font that matches the skeuomorph and use a similar sans serif font.

I don't know if it makes sense to have rendered PNGs for using here. the list will need to be populated dynamically, so there wouldn't be much to pre-render? what thoughts do you @jeanbrazeau have about it?

[tedmoore]

I've added this to the bottom as a quick fix for now, but eventually also having the button or whatever on the display itself will be good!