[Bf-committers] Proposal to unify UI float ranges

Thomas Dinges dingto at gmx.de
Sun Aug 22 12:20:22 CEST 2010


  Rounding would be only for values with more than 3 decimals.
Less/Equal 3 will show correct.

And this is only 1 option, we could skip the rounding fot the "more than 
3 decimal" scenario.

Thomas

Am 22.08.2010 12:17, schrieb Daniel Salazar - 3Developer.com:
> All good points but I was never too sure about rounding decimals! its
> quite misleading actually, you get into situations where you typed a
> number like 1.55 and if it rounds to 1.6 you are not sure if you typed
> it right..
>
> Daniel Salazar
> www.3developer.com
>
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 4:14 AM, Thomas Dinges<dingto at gmx.de>  wrote:
>>       Hi everybody,
>> we have quite some inconsistency in the UI regarding Button ranges at
>> the moment.
>> We have Floats where 1 decimal is shown, 2 or 3.
>>
>> And we have a lot of buttons where you click on one of the small
>> triangle icons (right or left) and you can't see a difference, because
>> the third decimal is changed but UI only shows 2.
>> That is bad and the user could think it's not working, cause his click
>> doesn’t show any effect.
>>
>> My proposal is:
>> Let's unify the view of the ranges like this:
>> Value is 1, UI shows 1
>> Value is 1.5, UI shows 1.5
>> Value is 1.55, UI shows 1.55
>> Value is 1.555, UI shows 1.555
>>
>> More than 3 decimals
>> Value is 1.5556, UI shows 1.556
>> or
>> Value is 1.5556, UI shows 1.555
>>
>> This way, we would save some space, as we don’t have to see 3 decimal
>> digits when the value only needs 1 decimal to show correct. etc.
>>
>> Second thing:
>> By clicking the Triangle Icons some properties increase/decrease by an
>> amount of 1, 0.1, 0.2 etc. This is very inconsistent too.
>> For floats I would suggest to unify that as well, and increase the first
>> decimal only. So 1.0 gets 1.1, 1.56 gets 1.66 and so on...
>> Any other values can be done via manual input.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Thomas
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