Interface Design

Interface Design modules are the visual building blocks of your custom user interfaces. They include interactive controls (faders, knobs, buttons, switches, listboxes) and panels (containers, oscilloscopes, editors, 2D/3D interactive surfaces, drawing tools) that you place in the control panel to build tailored instrument interfaces.

Categories

Category Modules Description
Faders & Knobs 8 Horizontal/vertical faders, rotary knobs, color picker, filename/folder/string/timecode/MIDI faders
Buttons & Switches 6 Push button, toggle switch, double switch, play switch, LED indicator, and range fader
Lists & Menus 3 Combobox dropdown, listbox, listbox displayed as buttons, and main menu
VU Meters 3 Horizontal, vertical, and LED-style audio level meters
Containers & Layout 4 Container panel, popup window, separator, and shape drawing
Text & Image 3 Text display, image display, and embedded web page
Oscilloscopes 3 Audio waveform, data over time, and XY Lissajous displays
Array & Matrix Editors 3 Numeric array editor, string array editor, and interactive matrix
Drawing & Trajectory 5 Draw pixels, trajectory paths, spline curves (2D/3D), and polygon drawing
Interactive 2D/3D Surfaces 6 XY/XYZ pads, XY/XYZ draw, meta-surfaces (2D/3D) for spatial control
Specialized Panels 4 Ruler, points path with collision, wave display, file browser, and OpenGL video

Faders & Knobs

Continuous value controls for numeric, color, filename, string, and timecode input.

Buttons & Switches

Discrete value controls: push buttons, toggles, LEDs, and range selection.

Lists & Menus

Selection controls for choosing from a list of items.

  • Control Combobox
  • Displays a list of items as a combo box.

  • Control Listbox
  • Displays a list of items as a list.

    list box

  • Control Listbox Buttons
  • Displays a list of items as a list of buttons.

    list box button

  • Main Menu
  • Creates a main menu for the application. The structure of the menu is defined as an indented text (with spaces) representing the menu's structure.

VU Meters

Audio level indicators in horizontal, vertical, and LED styles.

Containers & Layout

Structural panels for organizing your interface layout.

  • Panel Container
  • The container is like a panel but it can contain several other interface-design modules or other containers.

  • Panel Popup Window
  • Adds a Popup window inside a patch.

  • Panel Separator
  • Simple visual separator panel.

  • Panel Shape
  • Oval, Circles, Rectangle, Hexagon, Pentagon, Triangle shape panel.

Text & Image

Display text, images, and embedded web content.

  • Panel Embedded Web Page
  • Displays a web page or html/javascript content directly embedded into a panel of Usine.

  • Panel Image
  • Simple panel, can be used to display a bitmap or an image.

  • Panel Text
  • Displays a text into a panel.

Oscilloscopes

Real-time waveform and data visualization.

Array & Matrix Editors

Edit numeric arrays, string arrays, and interactive switch/fader matrices.

Drawing & Trajectory

Draw pixels, paths, and spline curves in 2D and 3D space.

Interactive 2D/3D Surfaces

Spatial control surfaces for positioning objects, calculating distances, and creating interactive meta-surfaces.

Specialized Panels

Rulers, collision detection, waveform editing, file browsing, and video rendering.

See also

All Interface Design Modules

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