HELP: How to make slider button

[xie]

hi! How do you make a slider with buttons on each side that control the movement of the pointer? Thanks!

@TfGuy44 @CodeMasterX

[jafal]

Hi and welcome

Search the forum you can find many examples

[jafal]

Read this Link there is sliders included in some examples

How to make a slider

When I first started programming, I made a color creator program with sliders int w = 600; int h = 600; float r = 125; //red part float g = 50; //green part float b = 5; //blue part float range = 500; //size of slider float yrange = 25; float min = 0; float max = 255; float xR = w / 2; //where is red slider float xG = w / 2; //where is green slider float xB = w / 2; //where is blue slider float yR = w/3 * 2; //where is red slider f…

[quark]

You have a couple of options

1. Create the controls from scratch
2. Use one of the contributed libraries. Both G4P and controlP5 are long established and well supported libraries.

If you go for (2) then and if these libraries don’t have the exact control then you can simulate it with a slider and two buttons. In the button event handlers you can change the slider value and hence move the thumb.

[quark]

You might look at some examples.

In Processing select File > Examples and in the popup window select Topics > GUI try the examples and try and understand the code.

[Chrisir]

@xie

can you please give me an idea on how to start it from scratch

See jafal’s link above please