Anyone who has seen the subject implemented in Java/Swing might have
been stunned by the hundreds of lines of code that were deemed
necessary for it, with their appropriate share of bugs. (And an
implementation I've seen in C#/NetAdvantage was even worse, which was
less related to the language itself, as to the GUI toolkit)

I knew this could be done way more elegant, but I was surprised it can
be done THIS nicely - if done in clojure. And if you think this can be
improved further or find any bugs, shoot!

Example: Prices for Japanese stock have a step size of
    1 in the interval [0,3000],
    5 in the interval (3000,5000],
    ...

An easy way to model that would be a sorted map:

(def japanese-stock-tick-map
     (sorted-map
           0      1
        3000      5
        5000     10
       30000     50
       50000    100
      300000    500
      500000   1000
     3000000   5000
     5000000  10000
    30000000  50000
    50000000 100000))

Figuring out the step size - which on the interval edges depends on
whether you go up or down - can be done like this:

(defn get-tick-size
  [tick-map value go-up?]
  (second (first (rsubseq tick-map (if go-up? <= <) value))))

Aligning an arbitrary value to the closest valid number (if
necessary):

(defn align-to-tick-size
  [tick-map value]
  (let [tick-size (get-tick-size tick-map value false)
        remainder (mod value tick-size)]
    (if (zero? remainder)
      value
      (* tick-size ((if (>= remainder (/ tick-size 2)) inc identity)
(quot value tick-size))))))

Now implementing the SpinnerModel is trivial (which is why I will not
copy it here, but leave it on http://dueck.org/tick/tick-size-spinner.html
in a simple demo for anyone to try out).

You're the man, Rich!

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