On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Igor Tolkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Just upgraded to SAGE 3.1.1. The sliders have suddenly started >> producing floating-point values; that is, >> >> num_approx=slider(1,5,default=2,label="Number of steps") >> >> gives me a slider whose initial value is 2.00200400802, and that when >> I slide from left to right can give me values such as 1.3 etc. I think >> this is due to a recent bugfix. > > Yes. Actually the change corrected seemingly arbitrary behavior with > sliders when two different forms of slider input produced different > results. > >> Typing step_size=1 produces the old, desired behavior, but according >> to the documentation step_size=1 is the default. >> >> What is the expected future behavior? > > In the future, sliders should be "continuous" by default, that is, > having as many possible values as the width of the slider allows. This > is a documentation bug and thank you for pointing it out. >
Don't you think a slider between 1 and 5 should at least start at 1 and end at 5? William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
