How do I retain the old GUIDE slider control in AppDesigner?

The old GUIDE slider (uicontrol) has the move forward or backward options as clicks. That's very handy for applications which require fine control over slider motion.

UIcontrol slider is in the bottom.

The AppDesigner slider is on the top.

I want UIControl slider functionalities (i.e the move forward or backward clicks) in the app designer. Ideally, the solution would require minimal code change but I'm open to extreme suggestions aswell.

[Rik]

I have a candidate for an extreme solution: just put two buttons next to your slider.

[Rakshit Kothari]

Ha! Love it. The only downside being the shift in boxes when the GUI window would be resized.

[Adam]

I don't use appdesigner, but for my GUIs I have a variety of custom slider objects where I combine a slider (usually a java slider which looks like the appdesigner ones) with a spin control to give the extra fine control and abolity to type exact numbers in.

Answer 1

[Melissa Williams]

Would a spinner work for your use case? If you require both discrete ticks like the GUIDE slider and continuous slider ability you could add both controls and synchronize their values using the value changing callbacks.

And the callbacks would look something like this (repeat for slider to spinner linking)

% Value changing function: Spinner
    function SpinnerValueChanging(app, event)
      changingValue = event.Value;
      app.MyvalueSlider.Value = changingValue;
    end