This preference panel gives control of the FloatControl class's colors (the View color, the High color and the Low color). Changing the View color changes the background color for the label region. Changing the High color changes the text color in the label and entry regions. For some reason the color change in the entry region is not real-time. You must close the window and re-open it to see this color change. I think this is a bug in the OS. The Low color affects anti-aliasing of the text.
The FloatControl, UInt32Control and StringGadget all perform very similar functions. They all allow the user to input textual information. The reason for having specific classes is so that each one may be a different color, so that the type of data required may be immediately obvious.
Currently, this gadget does no input checking. An input filter mechanism would be highly desired. I have not looked into this, but understand it is fairly simple.
for version 1.4.2
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