numeric control with increment/drecement buttons

[johncf]

hi - i'm trying to limit the ability to type a number into a numeric control. i want the following option to be controlled by a second Boolean button input:

if the boolean button TRUE, i want the numerical control on the front panel to allow the user to type in a value OR use the increments/decrement buttons

if the boolean is false, i want the numerical control to only allow the user to change the value via the increment/decrement buttons and NOT be able to enter a value directly to the numeric control.

this is similar to using a property node to disable the numeric control, but i only want to disable the ability to type in the value, not disable the increment/decrement buttons...

any thoughts?

[GerdW]

Two options:
- using the boolean you place a transparent element over the numeric input, so it blocks direct access. You need to disable tabbing as well...
- use your own incr/decr buttons so you can disable the numeric input.

[altenbach]

You can always make you own and with your own logic (e.g. make the increment/decrement seperate buttons and hide the original ones or even wrap it all into an xcontrol.

[johncf]

thanks for replying.  i was thinking something along these lines as a brute force way, but just wanted to see if i was missing a feature in the numerical control properties.  i will pursue this...  thanks again....

[Mike_King]

could build an xcontrol for this as well, with a property that you can simply turn on and off the the numeric input.  The X-Control will hide the transparent element blocking numericentry, you can then reuse it in your UI as a standard replacement for any numeric input, but with an additional property to control its numeric input True/False.