How to use floats with TrackBar

Question

I\'m using a TrackBar control. By default its values are int32. I would really like to use decimal values so the use can select at a more granular

Answer 1

Another idea would be to inherit from TrackBar and simulate float values in a custom class in the way Reed Copsey suggested to use ints and multiply with a precision factor.

The following works pretty neat for small float values:

class FloatTrackBar: TrackBar
{
    private float precision = 0.01f;

    public float Precision
    {
        get { return precision; }
        set
        {
            precision = value;
            // todo: update the 5 properties below
        }
    }
    public new float LargeChange
    { get { return base.LargeChange * precision; } set { base.LargeChange = (int) (value / precision); } }
    public new float Maximum
    { get { return base.Maximum * precision; } set { base.Maximum = (int) (value / precision); } }
    public new float Minimum
    { get { return base.Minimum * precision; } set { base.Minimum = (int) (value / precision); } }
    public new float SmallChange
    { get { return base.SmallChange * precision; } set { base.SmallChange = (int) (value / precision); } }
    public new float Value
    { get { return base.Value * precision; } set { base.Value = (int) (value / precision); } }
}