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From: mday@pollack.mmwb.ucsf.edu (Mark Day)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: sliders with floating point values?
Message-ID: <mday.658458091@pollack.mmwb.ucsf.edu>
Date: 13 Nov 90 01:01:31 GMT
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According to the XView programming manual, the value of a slider is an integer,
yet this manual also states that:
	"Sliders are appropriate for situations where it is desired to make fine
	adjustments over a continuous range of values"

It's not obvious to me that integer values will always have the precision
necessary for making these "fine adjustments".

1. Is there a floating point slider hidden somewhere in the xview library?
2. Is the xview specification "frozen", or is there still time to add such a beast?
3. Has anyone implemented an xview floating point slider that I can borrow?
   (I'll return it, I promise)

Mark Day
Dept. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry		mday@zeno.mmwb.ucsf.edu
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