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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: Is there a control for this?
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018 15:49:16 +0000
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dr.j.r.stockton@gmail.com writes:

> I have several controls, to be all alike, and the first has
> been upgraded to (with these 3 inputs on ONE line) :-
>
> L
> <input type=button value="-" onclick="this.nextSibling.value--;Draw()">
> <input name=L type=text size=4 value=13>
> <input type=button value="+" onclick="this.previousSibling.value++;Draw()">
>
> One of the effects of Draw() is reading the control.
>
> Is there a better approach nowadays - a single control element,
> perhaps?  It must accept typed values in L, and a slider would
> either be too long or give insufficient resolution.

The HTML5 solution is <input type=number> though it's up to the browser
how that is rendered.  That's not necessarily a negative -- if there's a
good way to alter a number on some platform (maybe with a swipe action)
they you want that to be made available.

<snip>
-- 
Ben.