On 3/2/2013 5:18 PM, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
> On 3/2/2013 4:30 PM, dpb wrote:
>
>> Not to mention it would break the expected behavior users know from
>> other Windows apps where they can typically move the slider itself to
>> obtain yet more granularity than provided by the arrow/keyboard.
>>
>
> wow, That must be some really an amazing mouse/hand coordination
> where one can use the mouse to slide a slider by just say 0.0001 amount.
>
> How can this be possible? Can one actually control by hand the
> slider values to change by such a amout? Is this like super lazer
> type of mouse?
What the amount is all depends on the range specified; it's the pixel
resolution that's the controlling amount and that's fixed by the
hardware/display/etc., ...
> But to obtain exact values from Slider, another simple solution
> (other than having an option as I said before) it to allow
> a small pop-up window to use to enter in it a more exact value
> whenneeded.
>
> This is what Mathematica does....
So use Mathematica... :) --or code your own--you could create such
yourself if want.
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> On 3/2/2013 4:30 PM, dpb wrote:
>
>> Not to mention it would break the expected behavior users know from
>> other Windows apps where they can typically move the slider itself to
>> obtain yet more granularity than provided by the arrow/keyboard.
>>
>
> wow, That must be some really an amazing mouse/hand coordination
> where one can use the mouse to slide a slider by just say 0.0001 amount.
>
> How can this be possible? Can one actually control by hand the
> slider values to change by such a amout? Is this like super lazer
> type of mouse?
What the amount is all depends on the range specified; it's the pixel
resolution that's the controlling amount and that's fixed by the
hardware/display/etc., ...
> But to obtain exact values from Slider, another simple solution
> (other than having an option as I said before) it to allow
> a small pop-up window to use to enter in it a more exact value
> whenneeded.
>
> This is what Mathematica does....
So use Mathematica... :) --or code your own--you could create such
yourself if want.
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