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- From: rickg@eng.sun.com (Richard M. "The Tankster" Goldstein)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
- Subject: Re: DEVGUIDE PROBLEM: floating point number input
- Date: 29 Jul 92 09:46:26
- Organization: SunSoft, Inc.
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- In-reply-to: hjiang@orion.fccc.edu's message of 29 Jul 92 15:53:59 GMT
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- From: hjiang@orion.fccc.edu (Hong Jiang)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
- Date: 29 Jul 92 15:53:59 GMT
- Organization: Fox Chase Cancer Center
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- Hi, I'm using devguide on Sun Sparkstation OpenLook 4.1.1 to develop the GUI
- for my application programs. I find it is strange that the 'numeric' type text
- field does not allow the decimal input, but the slider does. Is it the only
- way to use 'Alphanumeric' type text field as the floating point value input
- method? but then I can not set the range the input.
-
- Is this a bug of DEVGUIDE or just my misunderstanding of it?
-
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- this is not a bug in DevGuide but rather a shortcoming of the toolkits
- and really the Open Look spec (as well as a personal pet peeve). if
- you need floating point support, your best bet is to try a textfield
- with an event handler.
-
- Note that while you can type a '.' into the slider's value field, it
- will not respond to it as a decimal point.
-
- <<tank
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