I agree that spinner can be nice in some situations, but are more of a pain in others, and can even decrease functionality because they limit the precision and range of values that can be entered into a control (sometimes good and sometimes not). Nothing wrong with typing a number if great flexibility is needed.
Michael
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On Mar 21, 2013, at 5:12 AM, <grass-dev-request@lists.osgeo.org>
wrote:
From: Martin Landa <landa.martin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] wxGUI spin control for floating point ???
Date: March 21, 2013 5:11:59 AM MST
To: Markus Metz <markus.metz.giswork@gmail.com>
Cc: GRASS developers list <grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org>
Hi,
2013/3/21 Markus Metz <markus.metz.giswork@gmail.com>:
What is the reason to have a spin control for floating point values?
Could the spin control at least not use the number but the significant
digits (same like printing with %g) for spinning? E.g. for 0.00000001
I see 0.000 which is wrong. IMHO the spin control should be reverted
to text input.sometimes float spin controls are useful sometimes not. Useful eg.
d.vect size, but not for the case you mentioned. Probably we could
stay with floating spin control (some improvements required) rather
than plain text input. No strong opinion here.Martin
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