Numeric fields have spinner control

[kingja]

Bruce,

     When adding a field to a form, I see Numeric and Spinner in the Type drop down.  When I choose Numeric, they all have spinner controls.  It seems to me I should only have a spinner control if I explicitly choose Spinner.  Is this by design?  I'm looking into setting a jquery option to turn off the spinner.  If this is a template feature, could you add an option to turn on/off the spinner for the Numeric field type?  NT 8.23.

Thanks,

Jeff

[terryd]

Hi Jeff
What I have done even if the field type is a number is to set the form type to string,
In the string tab set the width based on how big the number could be and the picture to a numeric format e.g. '@n_3b'
In the validation check the numeric box which then allows you to set the low/high values
In the attached both the Order and field length fields are numeric but the field on the form is a string which will only accept numeric import between the limits set on the validation tab.

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[kingja]

Thanks Terry, definitely a good alternative.

Jeff

[Bruce]

Hi Jeff,

>>   When adding a field to a form, I see Numeric and Spinner in the Type drop down.  When I choose Numeric, they all have spinner controls.

well yes an no. Some browsers display a Spinner control, others do not. the "Number" type maps to the HTML <Input type="number"> and each different browser can then display that according to the browser itself. I've not had a lot of joy with number - you can't control the formatting, and the browser does a lot of it's own stuff.

The "Spinner" type came later and is a spinner on all browsers. So if you want a spinner choose this. If you _don't want a spinner then go with Terry's suggestion and change the type to "String" (and you can set the format as well.)

>> It seems to me I should only have a spinner control if I explicitly choose Spinner.  Is this by design?

yes it's by design, just not my design <g>.

>>  I'm looking into setting a jquery option to turn off the spinner.  If this is a template feature, could you add an option to turn on/off the spinner for the Numeric field type?

alas no, I can't turn it off for "number". The best way to turn it off is to make ti a "String".

cheers
Bruce