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 <din...@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 > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers