This is more of a suggestion, so maybe this isn't the right place to post. If so, apologies.
The date-time widget with appearance="year" gives a nice spinner to enter integers between 1901 and 2100. If would be really nice to be able to use a spinner like this to enter arbitrary integers, especially as the code (presumably) exists within ODK Collect already. OK, maybe not arbitrary integers, but (say) numbers between +/-100 (which, I'm sure, form the vast majority of the answers ever provided to "integer" questions), or a user-specifiable range.
The use cases I'm thinking of are:
(1) collecting dates in non-Gregorian calendars. In the Nepali calendar, for example, months have between 29 and 32 days. At the moment, I'm using three select1 fields with appearance="minimal" in a group on the same page. This works, but isn't brilliant, as the option list of 1-32 is large compared to the screen size.
(2) multiple integer fields on a page - when the virtual keypad pops up, it conceals the bottom half of the screen, leading to fieldworker confusion.
(3) users who would be happier "leaning on" the + or - to change values, rather than "typing" on the keypad.
Thanks.
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Mitch
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On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 12:01 AM, wrote:
This is more of a suggestion, so maybe this isn't the right place to post.
If so, apologies.
The date-time widget with appearance="year" gives a nice spinner to enter
integers between 1901 and 2100. If would be really nice to be able to use a
spinner like this to enter arbitrary integers, especially as the code
(presumably) exists within ODK Collect already. OK, maybe not arbitrary
integers, but (say) numbers between +/-100 (which, I'm sure, form the vast
majority of the answers ever provided to "integer" questions), or a
user-specifiable range.
The use cases I'm thinking of are:
(1) collecting dates in non-Gregorian calendars. In the Nepali calendar,
for example, months have between 29 and 32 days. At the moment, I'm using
three select1 fields with appearance="minimal" in a group on the same page.
This works, but isn't brilliant, as the option list of 1-32 is large
compared to the screen size.
(2) multiple integer fields on a page - when the virtual keypad pops up,
it conceals the bottom half of the screen, leading to fieldworker confusion.
(3) users who would be happier "leaning on" the + or - to change values,
rather than "typing" on the keypad.
Thanks.
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