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How to make the Spinner widget spin faster?

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The only way I found to change its speed was to change the Marker count.

The refresh rate/spinning speed is hard coded into the widget as a constant and the widget advances ever 0.3 seconds. It is not settable from the outside of the widget.

Kind regards
Bernd

A rule of thumb:
If the inspector does not provide a way to change any property or value etc. of an object, then there is no way to do that!

There are some very, very, VERY few exeptions however.

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Grow your own.

For anyone interested, to generate the static images for the stack above, I ran a simple
loop, importing snapshots of the spinner widget every 7 ticks.

The only snag is that one ends up with bitmapped images that cannot be scaled very well should that be needed.

The FACT that very few widgets are able to be tweaked in any useful way does tend to make me anti-widget.

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It is a very good thing indeed that my holiday is about to finish.

This 'thing' consists of 9 graphics, and the central one (the rotation path) can be dragged around.

Everything could be scaleable if someone more driven than me could be bothered.

The SPEED is set in the SPIN button script.

Disclaimer: No widgets were harmed during the making of this stack.

Thank you all

richmond62 wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 09, 2022 3:59 pm

The FACT that very few widgets are able to be tweaked in any useful way does tend to make me anti-widget.

It's possible if you learn LCB. I find some of the widgets to be quite useful even if untweaked, particularly the browser widget.

It's possible if you learn LCB.

I would not doubt that for a moment.

However, maybe I expect too much to be able to do everything inwith a single programming language.