On 22 Jun 2009, at 09:11, Graham Cox wrote:
The standard way to handle this is to pair an ordinary text field
with a stepper control (and maybe a slider, if you have space). The
stepper allows the user to spin the value up or down while the text
field allows them to type a value.
I'm using the stepper approach for now but neither me nor my users
like it much. The slider idea could be useful but of course GUI space
is at a premium which is one of the reasons I'm looking at alternatives.
I doubt that even if you get your field working properly, anyone
will expect it to work the way you describe, and it will be very
frustrating to have the value changing when they just tried to click
and drag to select it.
Very unusual UI widgets are not "standard" usually for very good
reasons.
The click and drag number box is very much a standard in audio
applications, for example, Apple's Logic Pro.
Stephen
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