Slider monitors: changing the min and max

[paulkaplan]

Scratch 2.0 has a feature where the min/max of a slider can be changed by right clicking the slider monitor. We are currently importing the custom range from 2.0 projects, but the range is fixed to 0-100 for monitors created in 3.0

This overlaps with the issue of decimal monitors, or, setting the "step size" of the sliders, because you can force the sliders to use decimal steps by using decimal min/max in a somewhat complicated way. We may want to make that setting explicit. See step size issue for more details. #2052

[benjiwheeler]

User @cyx2015s also reported:

I can't change the min or max value of the slide monitor. Some of my old projects have the old settings and still work, but some of them are resetted to 0 ~ 100.

[ntlrsk]

Seamus O Neill, who works with teachers and students on math (ReadySteadyCode), contacted us to say that negative numbers on sliders no longer work, for example, this project of his: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/62825976/editor/

As he writes:

The problem I'm raising with you is the Min and Max feature (negative/ positive) of the variables in slider mode doesn't work as it did in Scratch 2. Unfortunately in Scratch 3 it's not possible now to select negative values and hence not possible to select any point on the stage. Also, Min and Max allowed setting a smaller range making it easier to select the value you want.
For example teachers and students enjoy using the 'Draw a line' block in this project but now it doesn't work: https://bit.ly/2TusZfE

[apple502j]

I'm on it (it's not help-wanted, but...)

[sandboneill]

Here I am enquiring about the status of the slider variable problem (negative values not possible and range 1-100 too wide). Thanks Seamus O'Neill

[benjiwheeler]

@sandboneill Thanks for asking. There's a pull request in the works that should add this functionality soon.

[sandboneill]

Thanks for update.