[Scilab-users] GUI: can we make a graduated slider (aka slider with ticks)?

[Antoine Monmayrant]

Hi everyone,

I just started to play again with GUI in scilab to experiment with the new layout system and I re-discovered my old frustration with sliders: there are no graduations on them making them difficult to use in practice.
Example: slider value goes from 830 to 895: where should I move the cursor to get around a value of 850 or 870, 1/3, 2/5, 3/5?
As anyone found a workaround to this problem?
I tried to display an axes above to the slider to use the axe's ticks as graduations for the slider.
But there is some padding left and right from the slider that makes it difficult to align the start and end of the slider "scale" respectively to the first and last ticks of the axes.
Am I this only one annoyed by this "limitation"?
What about a "wishlist' bug report to add this property to the sliders?

Cheers,

Antoine