Slowing down mouse control speed of a number object

MAX.XAM's icon

Hey all,

Is there a way to slow down the mouse control speed of a number object? Right now the number object scrolls through the number range too fast with very little mouse movement. Can I change this?

Thanks!

Jan M's icon

Hi MAX.XAM,

for [flunom] you can click on the decimal you want to increment. The further right you click the smaller the increments. For [number ] it is what it is unfortunately. The only way I can think of is decrease the mouse sensitivity on your operating system.

Jan

Bill 2's icon

I don't think there's a direct way, like a setting or something, but by adjusting colours and visibility you could make a workaround like this:

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Peter Ostry's icon

Funny idea :-)
I like it. Especially with the control-number transparently on top and the real number ignoring the click.

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MAX.XAM's icon

Thanks Bill! That solution works.

Jan, thanks for the heads up about [flunom].

Bill 2's icon

@Peter: That's exactly what I would've done if I knew how. Thanks for fixing it. :-)

MAX.XAM's icon

I love this forum! Thanks Peter :)

Source Audio's icon

What when one wants to type into numbox?
Have to calculate the result ?

Peter Ostry's icon

Ok. The idea didn't live very long ;-)

Source Audio's icon

The idea is good, but would need more work,
like hover to detect when mouse is over the numbox,
than maybe using some modifier key to cover it
with / 20 one or something in that direction.
But it is going to be complicated if many numboxes have
to be used...
Here is a very simple way using shift key to
change between normal and slow behaviour.

Max Patch
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Well it's ok for just one numbox, sending ignoreclick script to
many of them would be another task.
Depends on the patch though, one could make bpatcher
with many numboxes and script that instead...

Peter Ostry's icon

Well, this looks simple but is quite complicated, thanks for this example.

I think it's not worth the effort, compared to just telling the user to use the shift key for slower scrolling.

Would be nice, instead of shift, if Cycling would adapt scroll speed to mouse speed.

MAX.XAM's icon

Is there a way to ignore keyboard input, but still accept mouse input with the invisible number object in Bill and Peter's examples?

Thanks Source!