MS 3 Evolution scaling

• Mar 26, 2025 - 00:15

Something I find frustrating is the scaling facility. First the increments/decrements are preset to other than single thousands of a mm, so we are at the mercy of some (to me) random preset amount.
Then, to change the thousands is also frustrating as deleting to enter a modestly smaller amount causes the thousands to fill in with zeros, causing one to have to go in and delete a particular zero to fill in a smaller amount.
My wish is to have the zeros NOT fill the spaces so they can be adjusted to operators intuitive amounts. Also, perhaps, have the preset amounts selected by the user or set to 1 thousandth.

I am hopeful you will consider changing this. Warm regards and thanks for your massive contributions. :-)

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• Mar 26, 2025 - 08:01

The problem has existed for a long time and not only in 3.7 - 3.6.2 also has the same problem. I mentioned this a long time ago. And I don't know which other versions as well.

But you don't have to change the scaling that often ... :-)

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• Mar 26, 2025 - 08:49

I did tak a look at that issue quite a while ago and could not figure out the reason nor the fix.
Most other spin boxes do not have that issue, but I can't see why, what the difference is.
And yes, this is pretty annoying

I do agree that the current step width of 0.2 is too large, but increments of 0.001 are to small, I usually use increments of 0.05, any would deem that a sane default, so are going to change to this for 3.7 shortly

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