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Control Components

Looks done — ready to closeIts outcome is written and the configurator is in daily use; it was simply never added to either index.

To close: Add it to qmap's HISTORY.md (it is in neither CYCLES.md nor HISTORY.md).

last activity Aug 15

Why we did this

Every qmap experiment built its own control panel by hand. We wanted one panel that draws itself from a list of settings, usable in qmap, qflow and the design site.

What happened

One configurator now builds a full control panel from a typed list of settings and exports only what you changed. It became the shared control set in our component library.

New in this cycleHand the panel a list of settings and it draws every control, grouped by category.

Documents

With file names, on their own page →

Documents

Pages

  • /experiments/c18.control-components/ (local dev)
At a glance
4
changes
0
conversations
1
decisions
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outside helpers
Who helped
MPMark ParsonQpoint team

What changed

The two changes that matter most, in plain words. Open any one to see it.

  1. 1

    Hand the panel a list of settings and it draws every control, grouped by category.

    A panel that builds itself · came from Mark Parson

  2. 2

    When the map looks right, the panel copies out only the settings that differ from the defaults.

    Export only what changed · came from Mark Parson

Also in this cycle
  • One setting changes the whole composition, live. Early → final
  • The panel lives in the shared component library and sister projects use it. In words

How we got here

Each change, traced back to the conversation it came from. A solid mark means the record names the source; a dashed one was matched by the draft and waits for review.

Someone said

From the record: no recorded conversation behind this one.

We decided

No ruling needed: the work itself is the change.

So now

Hand the panel a list of settings and it draws every control, grouped by category.

Someone said

From the record: no recorded conversation behind this one.

We decided

qmap-c18-D1 Export only the settings that differ from the defaults, so a tuned look can be frozen into a ready-made view. — Mark Parson

So now

When the map looks right, the panel copies out only the settings that differ from the defaults.

Thanks to

People outside Qpoint first. Every thank-you points at something they said or made.

MP
Mark Parson
Qpoint team

Built the self-building control panel

The record names nobody; credited from git authorship (the April 2026 batch commit for c18–c22).

All images

Every picture from this cycle. Click any one to step through them all.

The pairs

A panel that builds itselfNew in this cycle
Same map, different dialsEarly → final
→

Everything captured · 9

The full record 0 decisions · 4 key-change entries · 310 words · 9 captures

The record stays as written, for agents and for audit: Key Changes, every decision, the artifacts and the visual record.

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