Dynamic input in slider limits?

Hello everyone,

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Permalink Reply by yannis orfanos on February 23, 2011 at 8:25am

Hello everyone,

Is there a way to have dynamic input into slider lower and upper limit? e.g. control with a slider the lower limit of another slider?

thanx

Permalink Reply by Dieter Toews on February 23, 2011 at 10:58am

use a slider from 0 to 1 and then use the remap numerical domain function and generate the target domain dynamically (alway set the source domain to the domain you choose for your slider).

Permalink Reply by yannis orfanos on February 24, 2011 at 5:09am

Thanks! It works with remap (see image if that's what u mean).

Permalink Reply by Mårten Nettelbladt on February 23, 2011 at 9:47am

I think this has been asked for before, but it's apparently not so easy to do. Try searching the forum.

Permalink Reply by Emilio Morello on February 24, 2011 at 8:27am

Talking about sliders.

I think that a 'step' option instead of the Slider accuracy -> Digits value would be handy.

I would not take away the Digits slider ( at times _that_ is very handy ), just add

a little box showing the current step, but that we could also edit typing in a custom step value.

Thanks

Emilio

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on February 24, 2011 at 10:19am

So a slider going from 5.0 to 25.0 with a step value of 3, should only stop at 5, 8, 11, 14, 17, 20 and 23?

If I were to draw the result of the expression instead of the input on the slider UI, you could accomplish this by adding something like '5.0 + Slider * 3.0' into the expression field... (and having an integer slider with domain 0 to 6).

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Evert Amador on February 24, 2011 at 10:32am

Hi David,

Would it be possible to add buttons to each side of the value on the slider to increase/decrease accordingly?

Sometimes I found that when having sliders with a big range is difficult to set particular values moving the slider, I know, lazy me that doesn't want to edit the value entering the numbers.

Cheers

Evert

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on February 24, 2011 at 10:46am

The next release has a text-box input. If you double click the slider track bar you can enter a numeric value. I've also added a digit scroller control that make more sense for certain cases. Works like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qya1uaPauKU

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Evert Amador on February 24, 2011 at 10:50am

This looks really good,

Thanks a lot!

Evert

Permalink Reply by Emilio Morello on February 24, 2011 at 11:00am

Yes, that would be cool !

Being able to write an expression and to see the resulting number shown would solve the problem. Much better than simply using a step value ...

Good idea, David !

Gets my vote.