Reversed Fill Control

[Val Brown]

I have a request for a "reverse" fill control -- ie one that has its scale moving from right to left instead of the more standard left to right. And I'm having trouble seeing any really good way to implement this request.

I know about the fill options and how to use those -- as well as negative values -- to have the APPARENT fill move right to left, etc, but none of these methods actually reverse the entire control and, thus, leave the scale intact, ie oriented left to right.

Does anyone have any ideas?

[LAVA 1.0 Content]

QUOTE(Val Brown @ May 7 2007, 06:29 AM)

...none of these methods actually reverse the entire control and, thus, leave the scale intact, ie oriented left to right.

If I understand you correctly, I think all you need to do is set the number on the right side of the scale to zero and the number on the left side to your desired scale. Drop a default fill control and double click on the 10 value, and type '0'. The left side number should change to 10.

As long as the right side value is less than the left side, the values you pass in don't require negating, and the scales should be settable by the operator. If you need to prevent the operator from reversing the direction, you might need to make an XControl.

http://forums.lavag.org/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=5747

http://forums.lavag.org/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=5748 (LV 8.0)

[Mellroth]

QUOTE(Val Brown @ May 7 2007, 12:29 PM)

...Does anyone have any ideas?

Hi,

LV Punk is correct in that the easiest way to do this is to simply enter a smaller value to the right.

You can also open up the properties dialog for the slider, and mark the scale as inverted (the result is the same)

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/J

[Val Brown]

QUOTE(JFM @ May 7 2007, 04:51 AM)

Hi,

LV Punk is correct in that the easiest way to do this is to simply enter a smaller value to the right.

You can also open up the properties dialog for the slider, and mark the scale as inverted (the result is the same)

http://forums.lavag.org/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=5749

/J

Thanks for the follow up posts. Somehow I didn't see them when they came in and ended up calling NI for support. I got the same idea from them and the odd part is, I didn't even think of such an obvious option. I was looking for a property node or something -- and I didn't see any particular reference in the documentation. Oh well, frequently it's far simpler than you (or at least I) think!

Now I'm looking to make some further modifications to the slider images so that they look like brackets or a "box" when close enough together. My sense is that I may need to go to an XControl but, as I posted elsewhere, I've not seen a fully enough developed example of an XControl that modifies its appearance (among other features). In any event thanks for the follow up. I'm going to do some further digging/playing and will post on this additional idea presently.

QUOTE(Val Brown @ May 9 2007, 02:24 PM)

Thanks for the follow up posts. Somehow I didn't see them when they came in and ended up calling NI for support. I got the same idea from them and the odd part is, I didn't even think of such an obvious option. I was looking for a property node or something -- and I didn't see any particular reference in the documentation. Oh well, frequently it's far simpler than you (or at least I) think!

Now I'm looking to make some further modifications to the slider images so that they look like brackets or a "box" when close enough together. My sense is that I may need to go to an XControl but, as I posted elsewhere, I've not seen a fully enough developed example of an XControl that modifies its appearance (among other features). In any event thanks for the follow up. I'm going to do some further digging/playing and will post on this additional idea presently.

I just noticed the idea of using inverted but, when I tried that (originally) it didn't reverse the scaling.

I'll see if that's still reproducible on my system(s). Given how hectic it's been here lately it may very well have just been a visual hallucination on my part.