request: add Decimals property for ticks

[Lee Morgan]

I switched away from using the ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit's SliderExtender to RADSlider and love it, except I miss having the Decimals property.  Some stakeholders in my projects are very picky about precision in the display of numbers, and not being able to force the display of decimal digits on the tick labels will raise some complaints for me.

I've tried using the DataTextFormatString property but nothing changed; I imagine because the sliders are not databound.

[Niko]

Hello Mark,

You are correct in your observations. The RadSlider will display floating point values without the trailing zero signs. Still it supports floating point values with a precision up to two positions after the whole part. Please, check the following setup for more clarity:

<telerik:RadSlider ID="negativeSlider" runat="server" MinimumValue="-1" MaximumValue="1" SmallChange="0.05" LargeChange="0.5" Width="500" Value="0" ItemType="Tick" Height="70"  OnClientValueChanging="changingValue" />
<telerik:RadTextBox ID="negativeSliderValue" runat="server" Value="0" Label="Slider value: " />
<script type="text/javascript">
function changingValue(slider, args)
{
    $find("negativeSliderValue").set_value(args.get_newValue());
}
</script>

Hope this makes things a bit clearer. Please, let me know if you will need anything else.

Regards,
Niko
the Telerik team

[Lee Morgan]

Niko-

Yep, got everything working already so the slider precision was working correctly, just wanted to have the tick value labels mirror the precision of SmallChange, maybe that would be the change to make instead of adding another property.  Many thanks for any consideration in making something like this happen.

Mark

[Niko]

Hi Mark,

Thank you for your suggestion.

Currently we are discussing several ways of making the RadSlider more flexible and your suggestion will be included in the discussion. Still when or whether it will be implemented is still a unknown variable, if you allow me to express it that way.

All the best,
Niko
the Telerik team