Spinner control to show 8M instead of 8,000,000

Hi Philip,

The Spinner control doesn't display a value, it's just two buttons for incrementing and decrementing. It's used in several parts-based editors, such as Int32EditBox and DoubleEditBox. If you are referring to those controls, then what you describe is not currently supported. We've marked down a TODO item to see about adding this feature in the future.

Yes, I am talking about ie. PartEditBox, RangeTypeSpecificEditBoxBase, DoubleEditBox, etc. So is there a way to maybe inherit from RangeTypeSpecificEditBoxBase or other control to make it behave like that? What I am looking for is to have the textbox part to display something else instead of the actual value.

Thanks.

Hi Philip,

You might be able to accomplish that by restyling the DoubleEditBox. Basically, you want to overlay a TextBlock on top of the SlottedItemsPresenter in the ControlTemplate. When the DoubleEditBox does not have focus, you'd display your TextBlock. When it does have focus you'd display the SlottedItemsPresenter.

This wouldn't allow you to enter/modify the value "8M", but would display it when the control is not in use. Modifying the control to accept "8M" would be larger change and I don't believe that can be accomplished with the current version.