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I ran into a need for a slider widget and wanted to produce something that was simple to use and reusable.  I've heared discussion of a GUI widget library, but none, to my knowledge, has materialized.  Anyway, I've given a library style slider widget a preliminary stab, and I wanted to share my results; maybe it'd be a helpfull example for others trying to do the same.  I'm also fishing for comments if something I've done is just out-and-out wrong.

One thing I noticed and totally took advantage of is that it's possible for any class in the sketch's folder to pretend that it's a library.  This let me get started quickly by simply creating a Slider.java tab.  All I have to do later to make this into a library is put it in a package and wrap it all up in a JAR file.

The big thing that's missing from this implementation is being able to create vertical as well as horizontal sliders.

Here's an applet and the source code.  Feel free to use it whole, or rip it off, or whatever.

http://www.ibiblio.org/joey/sketchbook/SliderSketch/index.html

Thanks!

-Joey