UI/UX suggestion for range (and spatial) parameters.

2 votes

Right now, I think range parameters are a bit tedious to work with. It is not possible to move the whole range at once, instead, you must slide both ends separately. Then, it is also not possible to easily decrease the range's range (confusing language, sorry). If I want it to select 50% instead of 25%, again, I must move both ends separately.

I therefore suggest the two following manipulation abilities:
1. Left click in the "selected" part of the slider (the blue part) allows you to move the slider as a whole.
2. With the cursor hovering on the "selected" part, you can increase or decrease the range symmetrically by scrolling the mouse wheel.

Not planned Suggested by: Hylke (24 Dec, '21) • Upvoted: 24 Oct, '22 • Comments: 2

Comments: 2

24 Dec, '21
Stephen Schmitt Admin
Hi Hylk,

This is already the existing behavior?

1) If you left click and drag anywhere except on an endpoint itself, you move both endpoints.
2) If you alt-click and drag, you expand/contract it around the midpoint.

The alt-click behavior needs some behavioral que to make it more obvious that it is possible; at least a tooltip.
26 Dec, '21
Hylke
Glad to hear!

I must have had a misclick or small bug, because it wasn't working for me, but it works now. Agree, the Alt-click behaviour needs a tooltip or explanation somewhere, not something intuitive.