In that case we would loose support for the very handy buttons and keys behavior supported by the Spinner... :( But if you want to go in that direction, I'd rather have an extended In-Place Value Editor. At least, it's more integrated...
Pierre-Arnaud On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Stefan Seelmann <[email protected]>wrote: > Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot wrote: > > I think, at least, we need to state in the documentation that "the > Integer > > Value Editor only allows edition of integer values between -2,147,483,648 > > and +2,147,483,647, and for values outside of that range, the use of the > > In-Place Value Editor is recommended.". > > > > We can also try to implement a custom spinner which is based on a long, > but > > it won't be as good as the default SWT Spinner widget (especially in > terms > > of appearance an behavior on all platforms). > > I think that isn't worth to create a new spinner widget. > > My idea is to have s simple text field instead of the spinner with an > attached regex check. We already have something similar for the input of > the port number in the connection wizard. > > I see two options for that: > - either to have a dialog containing this text field. This is super easy > to imlement. > - or to extend the normal In-Place value editor, so that is does only > accept numeric values. This would avoid an dialog popup. > > Thoughts? > > Stefan > >
