Another option is to use a numeric textbox sort of approach. There's no sliders involved at all, but instead you get an UpDown arrow combo (like you suggested) and a textbox into which you can directly type a number. There's a lot of controls typically found in Windows UI that have no counterpart in the Grasshopper interface yet. Luckily it is not very difficult to make such features (though I have to admit writing the Post-It panel text scroller was a pretty steep job) so I can reasonably easy crank out more of them.
Keep those ideas coming, I like it when the wish list has a lot of wildly divergent items on it, it allows me to pick a job that closely suits my state of mind. :) -- David Rutten [email protected] Robert McNeel & Associates On Jan 18, 6:55 pm, ckpalmer <[email protected]> wrote: > I do think that would be very useful but that would take two clicks > and cursor movement to change the value while the numeric stepper > interface takes one click. The current one you designed (that I like) > takes a click and movement and unless it is set to integers is hard to > set at discrete values. I feel a little greedy asking if some > combination of them all could be made. > > On Jan 18, 2:51 am, David Rutten <[email protected]> wrote: > > > What about a > > combobox?http://www.codeproject.com/KB/combobox/XTipComboBox/XTipComboBox3.jpg > > > That way you could predefine any number of constants and pick one of > > those. Does this sound like something useful? > > For example, you would define a table of 2 columns: > > > | Option 1 | 0.0 | > > | Option 2 | 0.5 | > > | Option 3 | 1.0 | > > | Option 4 | 2.0 | > > | Option 5 | 5.0 | > > | Option 6 | 10.0 | > > > The values in the first column would be visible as the box dropdown > > items, and whenever you pick one of these, the value in the second > > column will be outputted. > > > -- > > David Rutten > > [email protected] > > Robert McNeel & Associates > > > On Jan 18, 7:56 am, ckpalmer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > What I meant was a blend of the slider with what is usually called a > > > numeric stepper. > > > > Here is what I had in mind: > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/grasshopper3d/web/stepper.jpg?hl=en > > > > On Jan 17, 10:35 am, David Rutten <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > That's already possible. Sliders accept expressions so you could put > > > > in: > > > > > Slider * 5 > > > > > or > > > > > Slider ^ 1.34 > > > > > or > > > > > Log(Slider+1.0) > > > > > -- > > > > David Rutten > > > > [email protected] > > > > Robert McNeel & Associates
