Hi to all,
I'm trying to get a numeric control with a suitable addition for the order of magnitude.
For example, I have a frontpanel for an osziloscope, sometimes I sample over a few ns, sometimes some seconds, sometimes a few milivolts, sometimes several volts, who knows, right 😉
I was playing around with the units of numeric controls, but this doesn't quite fit my needs. I can change the prefix of a unit on runtime, e.g. from microseconds to seconds, but then I have to change the number as well, because on changing the prefix, the previous number is only muliplied by the according factor, e.g. by 1000, so 5 us become 5e-6 s. So changing the record length from the default value of 500ms to 100ns would require two klicks and typing, and instead I can just type '100e-9' which is good as well.
However, I would like to have an numeric control from 0 to 1000 combined with e.g. a dial knob for the prefix i.e. nano, micro, mili etc. and combine this values internaly, i.e. mulitplying accordingly. But I couldn't set the increment to "3 orders of magnitude" even with the log scale option.
I'm aware, I could use an enum with the according names and values, but thats not very satisfying.
So maybe the question would be: Is it possible to combine two numeric control, one or the value and one for the prefix, in a suitable and easy way? Or how do you handle numerical values over several orders of magnitude in a case like mine?
Thanks for your answers in advance,
Best,
bastlwastl
