Simple button-based UI for small touch displays

[klangpost]

It would be great to have a simple, button-based UI as an alternative to the graphical console.

Especially on small touchscreens, such as 7" displays, the graphical controls can be difficult to operate. Sweelinq/OrganTEQ is a good example of how a simple touch-oriented view can work well.

For my own organ console with a 7" touchscreen, I wrote a small application called PyOrgan to control GrandOrgue, including independent setter/combination logic:

https://codeberg.org/klangpost/PyOrgan

Perhaps a similar simple view could be implemented for Masterpiece, with large buttons for stops, couplers, pistons, etc. The existing graphical UI could remain unchanged, with the new view simply providing an alternative for small displays.

[bonninr]

Thanks for the suggestion, and for sharing PyOrgan. We will build this into Masterpiece as "panels". The plan:

• A panel is a plain view of the organ: rectangles with the stop name and its footage, sized for touch.
• An organ can have up to two panels. Each sits as a tab beside the console pages, and can be detached into a window of its own and moved to another screen.
• A bar at the top of the panel has a toggle for each division, one for the organ's pistons and one for the expression controls. The sections switched on are shown side by side; with all of them on, the whole organ is on one screen.
• Couplers and tremulants appear in the division they belong to. Swells and the crescendo are vertical faders.
• An edit mode hides the stops and couplers you never use. Save keeps, for each organ, the sections shown, the hidden elements, the window position and the colour scheme.
• Each button uses the MIDI mapping of the stop or control it stands for, so nothing has to be mapped twice.
• The graphical console and the stop list stay as they are.

We will post here when there is a build to try.