Checkbox default value.

When using the 'Switch' component and the control 'Checkbox', the 'Checkbox' has its default values as unchecked=5 and checked=8. I know we can 'Use Remmaping', but...

Wouldn't it be possible to make it as default unchecked=1 and checked=2?

Aha ! For once, I totally 100% agree, the defaults of 5 & 8 are rather arbitrary, random, and dumb for that matter ha-ha.

jffe

+3

Yes, I remember being annoyed by this 5/8 thing. Honestly, I can't remember the reason why this is so. Probably, the unchecked state corresponds to the first third of the slider range (33.33333% rounded to the nearest integer) and the checked state to the second third (66.66666%). Anyway, I added this to the to-do list for future updates.

Lucato, the developers aren't happy with your suggestion

This will require more code overhaul than it may seem for the first glance, not saying that we'll have to re-render the library filters. Looking forward to version 2.0...

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GMM wrote: Lucato, the developers aren't happy with your suggestion. This will require more code overhaul than it may seem for the first glance, not saying that we'll have to re-render the library filters. Looking forward to version 2.0...

Come on guys, don't be lazy, it's not vacations time. Just kidding folks. Yup, I'm not a programmer, so I don't have the same view you guys have. I didn't think about it. I have to agree that it isn't seem so easy as the first glance. Ufa! What a relief. :0)

Interesting idea -- I'll run it through the devs.

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Vladimir Golovin wrote: We've discussed it. The new way is problematic as well, because code-wise, remappers belong to inputs of receiving components, not to the control component. So, issuing a new version of the Checkbox component and obsoleting the old one won't help in this case.

What a pity. I thought I had a solution Vlad. :0) I just didn't understand very well why we wouldn't we have a new control with 1 & 2 and get to use the remapp the same way, instead of thecheckbox as 33.3333 & 66.6666... Well, I can't argue once I have no programming knowledge. So, no overhaul. Ok, developers 1 x 0 for you. I'll be back with other stuffs in the future. hehehe.

Thanks for your quick feedback Vlad.

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GMM wrote: Lucato, the developers aren't happy with your suggestion

How about this thought, it will make both the users (Us) and the programmers (You) happy. Just change the default to 1 and 2 and don't worry about how it effects the filters. Most people who use switches already have a remap so that shouldn't effect the vast majority of filters, and then the authors of the filters (if their filters are effected) can simply resubmit their filters after they change it. If the author doesn't change their filter and the filter is Low Usage just huck the piece of garbage to the side of the road. Chances are no one will miss it.

So it makes the programmers job easy and puts some responsibility on the authors of filters. If we want our filters to stay "quality filters" we must update just a handful of filters. If we don't update our filters it is a pretty good guess that we just spammed the website with crappy filters that we hoped would get us a free copy of FF.

Continuing Lucato's idea, is not possible to make this as a patch in the checkbox control itself, without changing the remappers? Let's say like changing the remapper defaults in the after bind event to the Switch, something like if 5 then 1 and if 8 then 2 or something.
Besides, changing the filters wouldn't be a big problem since all the data resides in ffxml files and i suppose the change can be done with some advanced text replacer that replaces the old values with the new ones on the files themselves.