Enhancement---Effect Sliders

[Dremin2flyhi]

Could you also implement the Numeric value boxes for the Effect settings sliders as you have for the Speed.  Will make it easier to dial in the effects

[JonB256]

Could you also implement the Numeric value boxes for the Effect settings sliders as you have for the Speed.  Will make it easier to dial in the effects

In other threads where they discuss "text boxes," that is what they are talking about. As Gilrock said there, it takes many extra lines of code to create and link those boxes and sliders.

[dkulp]

At one point, I had turned on the labels for the sliders, but I think that had issues with tab navigation or something.   I wonder if we can revisit that now that we don't have the wxGrid thing.   

[Gilrock]

I just added the text boxes you're talking about to the new Galaxy effect and was planning to add them to the Morph effect.  It will take time for all effects to be updated plus I'm not sure it makes sense for all of them.

One thing weird I noticed is on the Galaxy sliders I'm able to use the arrow keys to move every slider except for 1.  The revolutions slider will not move.  I didn't figure out why.  It's the only one that has a larger range since it goes from 0 to 3600 internally and I divide that by 360.0 for display in the text box.

[Dremin2flyhi]

I understand ..  Just sometimes easier when doing the effects to a have number to go by to recreate it later in another sequence.  Especially doing some Arches where you can designate the head part being so many pixels and the tail a fewer number when trailing.

[Gilrock]

Yeah like Dan said in version 3 I was told to avoid using the text fields because it messed up the keystrokes that people used to move around the grid.

[Gilrock]

Got the text fields added to the Morph effect today and the Picture effect this weekend.  Basically I'm adding them when I'm sequencing and the lack of them is bothering me.

I was able to code up some macro definitions that make it easier to create the event handlers since all the code was always the same except for the control name.

[sean]

in 3.6 we had a character grid (like excel). When you would down arrow it would stop navigation if the effect had these boxes. Numerous bugs were raised on this in 3.6

Now that we no longer have a character grid but a gui, yeah all effects can me moved over to have boxes for the values of sliders.