Text boxes you get for free; dials are a poor UI choice for mouse-controlled
interfaces (imo).

Did you look at the slider module from Scriptaculous? I've used it several
times and find it to be extremely easy to use (and engineered for callbacks,
not posting to servers...)

http://wiki.github.com/madrobby/scriptaculous/slider


On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Korny Sietsma <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi - I'm throwing together a page with some Raphael-based graphs and I want
> to add some simple widgets to control the parameters used to draw the graphs
> - things like sliders, dials, simple text boxes to change numeric values,
> etc.
>
> This only needs to work on new browsers (no IE) - I'm wondering if anyone
> has any suggestions for where to get/build these widgets.
> Most of the libraries out there seem like overkill; they all feel the need
> to support old browsers, and they tend to assume you want to post the
> results as a form back to a server.
> I just want to call a javascript callback...
>
> I could build my own in Raphael, but that also seems like work; I'll do
> that if I have to, but I'm hoping someone has already done this for me!
>
> Suggestions?
>
> - Korny
>
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