Topic: How to: make a number box only display multiples of two

How to: make a number box only display multiples of two

DJF

Apr 30 2012 | 8:46 pm

I have a number box with a range of 32. In presentation mode, I would like a user to be able to alter this number box by dragging the mouse, however, I only ever want the user to be able to select multiples of 2. i.e dragging the box down from 32 will display 30, 28 then 26 etc. Is there anything I can do to get around this?

AaronMButler

Apr 30 2012 | 9:09 pm

Perhaps this is the most elegant way to achieve this.

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Pierre Guillot

Apr 30 2012 | 9:11 pm

hi,
I hope this will help you :

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AaronMButler

Apr 30 2012 | 9:14 pm

I meant "isn’t the most elegant way…"

Also, you’ll need the .txt file for coll.

Attachments:

blergh.txt

Roman Thilenius

Apr 30 2012 | 9:17 pm

put lcd in background or ubutton in foreground, and use those to get mousevalues.

scale mouse data to int, then *2

DJF

Apr 30 2012 | 9:22 pm

That is exactly what I am looking for Pierre G.

Christopher Dobrian

Apr 30 2012 | 11:20 pm

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broc

May 01 2012 | 9:01 am

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Stephane Morisse

May 01 2012 | 9:42 am

Broc I think you got the ‘most elegant way’…

AaronMButler

May 01 2012 | 5:50 pm

Awesome! I really need to explore more of the live objects. I use live.gain almost exclusively now, but I haven’t really explored the others. Thanks for posting that!

seejayjames

May 01 2012 | 6:23 pm

Very cool that you can set the steps in live.numbox!

But…can Pierre or anyone else explain why his patch works the way it does? It’s confounding my brain…if the result of the "if" statement comes out, shouldn’t there be a stack overflow created?