Bob,
vertical.jpg
Instead of the values of the slider being from left to right (like normal) why not from top to bottom. It would keep the sliders close together.
Al
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----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Jacobsen
To: jmriusers@...
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 3:23 AM
Subject: Re: [jmriusers] Add Nemerical Display to Spped Table
At 12:36 PM +0000 7/14/02, original_black_bart wrote:
>
>Over the weekend I spent considerable time using the program,
>establishing speed tables in two Lenz LE077XF decoders. Having done
>so I would like to offer the following for consideration; A CV value
>display should be added above each slide bar utilized in the setting
>of the twenty-eight speed steps. This would help users visualize the
>CV value each slider is set to without flipping to the CV window.
>
That sounds like a good idea, so I did some experiments to see how
hard it would be. Getting the fields to work turned out to be pretty
easy, but there's a problem with screen space. Putting a space for a
number above or below the sliders forces them farther apart; the
value field is wider than the slider. With 28 values (e.g. a 28-slot
speed table), putting a value above each makes the panel really,
really wide.
I put a screen shot of this in the "photos" area, see
The "Vertical.jpg"
file shows the numbers above the sliders.
Another way to do it would be to use horizontal sliders, which move
left & right. Numeric fields would fit nicely next to those; see the
"Horizontal.jpg" photo for an example. The problem with this is that
the sliders no longer really function as a "graph" of the speed
response; the vertical stack of sliders it much harder to interpret.
Any ideas on how to lay this out so it works well?
