What Is The Difference Between Floatslider And Floatslidergrp?

[pythonboy]

What is the difference between floatSlider and floatSliderGrp?

There are other corelations like these :

intSlider - intSliderGrp
textField -text FieldGrp

and so on ...

The non-group ones don't have the -label flag.And so far that is the only difference i ever really saw.If i need to label the thing i use the Grp if not without the Grp.I don't see why i would use the Grp over the non-Grp commands in this cases ?

I am sure there is some reason for their existance.Hope you guys know it

Cheers

[amitc]

the *grp's have an editable text field along with the slider.
One can enter numeric value instead of using the just the slider.

[pythonboy]

yeah that one too

my point was why did they complicate things so much,why not just have one with the flags of both you know

[ewerybody]

One thing I recently understood and what Joojaa was always trying to tell is:

a *grp creates a whole bunch of controls!
Its basically just like you create a rowLayout with all the controls inside! but see for yourself:

CODE
{
     window;
         columnLayout;
             textFieldButtonGrp -label "bla" myGUITest;
     showWindow;

     print layout -q -childArray myGUITest;

     button -e -label "HELLLOOHOOOHOHO!!" button;

     if (rowLayout -q -ex myGUITest)
         textField -e -text "rowLayout myGUITest exists!!!" field;

}

on the other hand its quite special! I mean you cannot achieve the same result if you really type it all by yourself. Its already plugged together very good. But of course its accessible like you create each control by yourself!