New kind of a vlue field

[peteihis]

Hi.

Working on #161 I began to miss a new kind of a value field:

• It should have lower and upper limit values, that can be set by constructor or by method
• It should have include/exclude option for the limit values (meaning > or => and < or =<).
• It should have increment arrows to add reduce the value.
• The increment sholud be set by constructor or method
• It might have a choice whether the increment snaps to multiplies of the increment or if it just adds/reduces the current value by the increment.
• Things like NONNEGATIVE would be replaced by the limit values but the INTEGER / DOUBLE ... options should be available

A constructor could look like something like this.

public LimitedValueField(int value, int type, int lowerLimit, boolean includeLL, int upperLimit, boolean includeUL, boolean showArrows)

And simply a limit value 'null' would mean that the limit is not set and if the upper limit is lower than the lower limit, it could at simplest be just ignored.

[makiam]

Looks very similar to standard JSpinner with set it's limitations via JSpinnerNumber model...

[peteihis]

And I see the there is a BSpinner too with a few options and it can take a SpinnerModel as well.... Got to study those some time a bit.

On the other hand I struggled some time ago with something similar trying to have a ComboBox display an icon and a text but, what ever it promised, never worked as I would have expected, so a promse is still just a promise with these toys. Makin one the way the ValueField is made does not look like an overwhelmingly huge a job.

[Sailsman63]

Do keep in mind that the BComponent variants have a limited API. However, getComponent() will allow you to use the full API of the underlying JComponent when you need it.