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Indecent Act

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Thanks for reposting Lifer, that's a great list :)

Looking at the comments from you and Apple Bloom about the range slider got me thinking.

How does this sound?

The range slider could populate this http://puu.sh/gJzYj.jpg with digits and give it focus, so the enter key would submit. Mouse scroll wheel over the slider could increment / de-increment buy + or - 1 for fine tuning.

21-Mar-2015 16:55:05 - Last edited on 21-Mar-2015 16:56:07 by Indecent Act

Morgan

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Uh... I don't know about you guys but I'd prefer something like this:
http://puu.sh/gJHZr.png

Instead of overcomplicating things with a slider and having to fine tune with mouse wheel (which sounds tedious), just move the "Go to" textbox slightly to the left as shown. I left a red rectangle to show its original position.

p.s: not to mention sliders are hard to control and it'd just be faster to manually input digits.

p.s 2: I mean, yes, you could make it so instead of 5 it shows 10 pages, that'd be nice. But no sliders if possible!

p.s 3: Oh and it'd be nice if you could add a "Return to Forum..." button right next to "Go to" textbox. It'd be faster than clicking "Back to top" and then the breadcrumbs. Or I don't know, maybe you could make the breadcrumbs persistent :)

By persistent I mean this: http://puu.sh/gJJ00.png would remain at the top of your Chrome, right below your bookmarks and it'd follow you everywhere. Scroll up or down, it'd follow!

Oh and you know what else you could make persistent? This at the bottom of your Chrome above the slidebar:
http://puu.sh/gJLJX.png

21-Mar-2015 18:53:06 - Last edited on 21-Mar-2015 19:42:22 by Morgan

Lifer
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Lifer

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Indecent Act said :
Thanks for reposting Lifer, that's a great list :)

Looking at the comments from you and Apple Bloom about the range slider got me thinking.

How does this sound?

The range slider could populate this http://puu.sh/gJzYj.jpg with digits and give it focus, so the enter key would submit. Mouse scroll wheel over the slider could increment / de-increment buy + or - 1 for fine tuning.

Perfect Idea, just make sure the slider is in focus when hitting enter. Can't have hitting 'enter' in a quick post change the page.

edit: Have the slider show up under the button page navigation if the option is selected, or don't display it if the option isn't selected.

21-Mar-2015 19:12:51 - Last edited on 21-Mar-2015 19:39:33 by Lifer

Lifer
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Lifer

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Btw, beware of the usability issue with sliders. Sliders usually operate on a range of integers e.g. 0 to 100.

Don't make it so that the slider maximum value is one-to-one with the number of pages of a thread. E.g. 100 page thread = 100 max value on a slider. That just makes it too hard to land on an exact integer for an exact page.

Make the slider value 1:10 instead or even 1:100, e.g. 100 page thread = 1000 max value on slider, or 10000 max value respectively. That way, you can have ranges of integers for each page, such as the following for a 1:100 ratio:

0-99= page 1
100-199 = page 2
200-299 = page 3
...
9900-10000 page 100

You can easily find the page number the value of the slider is on by integer division, because integer always truncates any decimal values off. So simply divide by 100.

so like a value of 550 on a slider would be
550/100 = 5.5 = 5

then
5+1 = 6 -> page 6 (since page 6 is in the range 500-599)

and as a special case for 10000th integer,
if (slider.getValue() == 10000)
then pagenumber = 100

Edit: I suggest the mouse wheel to perhaps decrement/increment by 50 integers on default.

All mouse wheels have different speeds however, in my case, it scrolls really fast so the magic number for me would be like 20 integers. You could put the decrement/increment as a custom number option in the Options menu.

Edit: Hotkey idea: Hold shift key while scrolling on mouse to scroll the bar without having to click on the bar to focus on it. Hit enter to go to the page.

21-Mar-2015 19:50:11 - Last edited on 21-Mar-2015 20:17:37 by Lifer

Indecent Act

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I just finished writing some mouse wheel functions to control some sliders on my options page, it increments a value by +/- 1 regardless of how my mouse is configured.

I'm going to push out update shortly and you'll see what I mean.

Anyway the page nav thing isn't something I'll be looking into any time soon, but it's good to toss around ideas :)

21-Mar-2015 20:19:32

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