Multislider: Set Slider Min/Max Beyond Slider Bounds

[andrejhronco]

When setting a slider, it would be useful to be able to drag outside the top/bottom bounds of the slider to more easily get the min/max slider values. Currently, you have to be very exact and intentional to be able to get the min/max values set.

[taylorbf]

I know what you mean, and this is a good suggestion. It would take some adjustment of how the multislider is implemented. (Currently it is simply a collection of Nexus.Sliders, which is great for inheritance and maintenance but it does create this problematic aspect.) I'll aim to revise this in the next round of updates.

[taylorbf]

Hi Andrej, wanted to let you know that I have a revision of the multislider on the way soon. It will have the same overall API but will be a single SVG implementation as opposed to a collection of nexusui sliders. This will make it a bit easier to interact with.

[andrejhronco]

Hi Ben,
That's great news! Looking forward to using it. Thank You

[taylorbf]

Just posted that update, it is version 2.0.10 now:

https://nexus-js.github.io/ui/api/#Multislider

Would be delighted if you would try this out and let me know of if you find any bugs or inconsistencies. The interaction should be easier. I also added an optional smoothing setting for if you are using the multislider to do waveform drawing or envelope drawing.

I can see a few updates that would still be nice but this will get us started on improving the multislider.

[andrejhronco]

This is feeling great overall! The smoothing option is awesome!
One thing that i noticed is the removal of the 'multislider.interacting' param, is 'hasMoved' basically the same thing in this new version?

Will test it out more and let you know if i find any issues.
Thank You for all your work on this.

[taylorbf]

multislider.clicked is a boolean that turns to true when a user presses on the multislider, and turns to false when the user releases from that interaction. (This is true of most of the interfaces, actually). I think that ought to provide what you're after.

I did notice that the setting for numberOfSliders is not in use at the moment and really should be, to make an easy way for someone to create a multislider with 100 sliders without initializing all the values. Will look to update this and a few other things.

BTW, I now have a 'donate' button on the homepage for folks to support this project. If you all use this for anything for-profit at KMI, please consider chipping in to help with further development of this project!

[andrejhronco]

Good to know, hasMoved is what i was after. I agree that numberOfSliders would be nice to have again, I've been setting all the values on instantiation so it hasn't been an issue for me.
I just made a personal donation to the project.
Thanks again for your work on NexusUI