On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Terry Brown <terry_n_brown@...36...> wrote:
It's another type of custom ctrl I guess, but Blender uses ctrls that look something like this
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Clicking on the arrow heads changes the value by a set amount.
This is what we always had. All numeric spinbuttons have those arrow buttons. The idea is to make it possible to use dragging, not clicking, which is much faster and easier (though less precise).
Clicking on the control but not on the arrowhead or number and then dragging the mouse across the screen changes the number proportional to the mouse movement, as if you'd grabbed a large imaginary invisible slider/scrollbar type control.
And this is what we don't have, and what has been proposed more that once. But I think it's a change GTK should make in their spinbutton control, then we get it for free.
Still, for some values a hslider is even better than this, as it gives a clear visual clue as to where in the allowed range your value is. Its only disadvantage is you cannot type a value, but I think we can live with that for things like Width or Force.