[SailfishDevel] Recommended replacement for a spinner?

Osmo Salomaa otsaloma at iki.fi
Tue Nov 1 20:59:54 UTC 2016


On 01.11.2016 21:15, Marcin Mielniczuk wrote:
> In my app I'd like to present the user a spinner to let them choose an
> arbitrary integer.
>
> What is a recommended replacement for this in Sailfish Silica? A
> TextField with IntValidator? Or is there anything better?

Add inputMethodHints and it should be good.

TextField {
     inputMethodHints: Qt.ImhDigitsOnly
}

Silica does offer a slider, but it's probably bad if the integer is 
indeed arbitrary, as you'd need to set a minimum and maximum, and a 
linear scale between them might not be appropriate.

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Osmo Salomaa <otsaloma at iki.fi>


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