[GRASS-dev] wxGUI spin control for floating point ???

[Michael Barton]

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 at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:grass-dev-request at lists.osgeo.org>>
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From: Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com<mailto:landa.martin at 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 at gmail.com<mailto:markus.metz.giswork at gmail.com>>
Cc: GRASS developers list <grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org>>


Hi,

2013/3/21 Markus Metz <markus.metz.giswork at gmail.com<mailto:markus.metz.giswork at 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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