[Bf-committers] About decimals in UI

[Daniel Salazar - 3Developer.com]

That is great! thank you very much!

Daniel Salazar
3Developer.com



On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Committed an improvement to precision calculation r37286, so small
> numbers don't display as zero, note that this isn't applied to values
> like 100.00001, which will display as they did before.
>
> There is one case where its not working as it should be:
> 0.0001 displays ok, but 0.0005 becomes 0.00050.
>
> Possible obvious solutions are rounding and comparing to see if the
> trailing zero is needed or we could strip trailing 0's off the string
> afterwards.
>
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:32 AM, voxelbunny <voxelbunny at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Very much +1!
>>
>> I'm not familiar with the implementation behind the scenes, but the issue of
>> decimal precision in the UI seems to be dealt with in a piecemeal fashion.
>> e.g. the Merge Limit in the Mirror modifier has 1E-6 precision, vs.
>> Subsurface Scattering Scale's 1E-3 precision, though I usually keep each in
>> the 1E-3 range.
>>
>> I'm not sure it's entirely appropriate for the design to enforce a certain
>> scale on the user. But the only all-powerful solution I can think of off the
>> top of my head would be an implementation inspired by scientific notation,
>> which is arguably unintuitive for sometimes non-technically-trained artists.
>> You're in a tough spot when the UI standard is to show four digits of
>> precision and the var starts with (0.000).
>>
>> At the very least I would like to be able to see some of the significant
>> digits/sig figs of the var when I deliberately widen the buttons panel.
>>
>> tl;dr: Some of my models use SSS Scale (.0005). I have literally copied this
>> value to the clipboard and pasted it into Notepad in order to see it, as
>> part of my normal workflow.
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Daniel Salazar - 3Developer.com <
>> zanqdo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I constantly need to input decimal values smaller than the precision
>>> shown in the UI. I propose making the precision dynamic. Normally it
>>> shouldn't need more than 0.0 but if you type 0.0015 it should get that
>>> amount of decimal spaces. BTW the rounding up of visible values is
>>> terrible, by far not the solution
>>>
>>> any thoughts?
>>>
>>> Daniel Salazar
>>> 3Developer.com
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