[hafqa] [hafqa] [Bug 1242] New: gtk.Scale resolution is restricted to powers of 10 via set_digits

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https://maemo.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1242

           Summary: gtk.Scale resolution is restricted to powers of 10 via
                    set_digits
           Product: haf
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: gtk
        AssignedTo: tommi.komulainen at nokia.com
        ReportedBy: sean at cs.gmu.edu
         QAContact: hafqa at maemo.org


set_digits not only specifies the digits in the label, but (weirdly) also sets the tick resolution of the slider.  
This forces all ticks to be multiples of powers of 10.  You can create a slider that is restricted to values (0, 
10, 20, 30, ...) or to (0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4), but not to (0, 2, 4, 6, ...).  And you CERTAINLY can't have it be 
(0, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, ...) etc.  This very seriously hinders the usefulness of HScale and VScale.

The 'Slider' class in my toolkit at:
    http://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/stuff/n800/toolkit/toolkit.py

...goes through a large number of hoops to overcome this and other Scale bugs.

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