[Bf-committers] Proposal to unify UI float ranges

[Thomas Dinges]

  Hi,
ok that is good!

Ok where we agree is that the increment/decrement issue needs fixing!
But how should we fix that? We have lots of such buttons.
Like Environment Lighting Energy: Show the third decimal there or let it 
change the second decimal?

Forget about the rounding, that can indeed cause some confusion.
For the hiding of zeros topic:
It would "flicker" quite a bit when the value change it's decimal 
amount. :) So lets forget that as well.
A Indicator like Ton propsed it would be good!

Thomas

Am 22.08.2010 12:26, schrieb Ton Roosendaal:
> Hi,
>
> I think we should show float numbers as float always, and certainly
> not round of numbers, which is very confusing. A button can display
> missing digits with some kind of indicator, like 2.5* or so.
>
> The increment/decrement should of course match the amount of displayed
> digits.
>
> -Ton-
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
> Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The Netherlands
>
> On 22 Aug, 2010, at 12:20, Thomas Dinges wrote:
>
>>   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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