On Aug 25, 2:12 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Igor Tolkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> Just upgraded to SAGE 3.1.1. The sliders have suddenly started
> >> producing floating-point values; that is,
>
> >>     num_approx=slider(1,5,default=2,label="Number of steps")
>
> >> gives me a slider whose initial value is 2.00200400802, and that when
> >> I slide from left to right can give me values such as 1.3 etc. I think
> >> this is due to a recent bugfix.
>
> > Yes. Actually the change corrected seemingly arbitrary behavior with
> > sliders when two different forms of slider input produced different
> > results.
>
> >> Typing step_size=1 produces the old, desired behavior, but according
> >> to the documentation step_size=1 is the default.
>
> >> What is the expected future behavior?
>
> > In the future, sliders should be "continuous" by default, that is,
> > having as many possible values as the width of the slider allows. This
> > is a documentation bug and thank you for pointing it out.
>
> Don't you think a slider between 1 and 5 should at least start
> at 1 and end at 5?
>
> William

That doesn't happen with either of the constructions I gave; how does
this arise?

john perry
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