I agree that spinner can be nice in some situations, but are more of a pain in others, and can even decrease functionality because they limit the precision and range of values that can be entered into a control (sometimes good and sometimes not). Nothing wrong with typing a number if great flexibility is needed.
Michael ______________________________ C. Michael Barton Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-2402 USA voice: 480-965-6262 (SHESC), 480-727-9746 (CSDC) fax: 480-965-7671(SHESC), 480-727-0709 (CSDC) www: http://csdc.asu.edu, http://shesc.asu.edu http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton On Mar 21, 2013, at 5:12 AM, <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: From: Martin Landa <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] wxGUI spin control for floating point ??? Date: March 21, 2013 5:11:59 AM MST To: Markus Metz <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Cc: GRASS developers list <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Hi, 2013/3/21 Markus Metz <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>: What is the reason to have a spin control for floating point values? Could the spin control at least not use the number but the significant digits (same like printing with %g) for spinning? E.g. for 0.00000001 I see 0.000 which is wrong. IMHO the spin control should be reverted to text input. sometimes float spin controls are useful sometimes not. Useful eg. `d.vect size`, but not for the case you mentioned. Probably we could stay with floating spin control (some improvements required) rather than plain text input. No strong opinion here. Martin -- Martin Landa <landa.martin gmail.com<http://gmail.com/>> * http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/~landa
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