# Editing floating point numbers with fancy controls

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/editing-floating-point-numbers-with-fancy-controls/1426>\
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**Created:** [January 7, 2010, 8:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/editing-floating-point-numbers-with-fancy-controls/1426 "2010-01-07T20:28:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/858c86/32.png) [@neville](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/neville)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 8:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/editing-floating-point-numbers-with-fancy-controls/1426/1 "2010-01-07T20:28:27Z")

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Hi,

I need to edit some floating point numbers for a refridge system. I would have liked to use the spinner, with a click up or down equating to +/- 0.1 deg C. It does not appear to support negative numbers however…

Then… I decided the slider control might work as well. However, it does work with negative numbers but does not appear to support deical places (0.1)…

Am I correct? Can I use these fancy controls for adjusting by +/- 0.1 setpoints?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/858c86/32.png) [@neville](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/neville)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 9:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/editing-floating-point-numbers-with-fancy-controls/1426/2 "2010-01-07T21:13:04Z")

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STOP PRESS, have sorted this one myself. The spinner needed to be set to double and the minimum reduced eblow zero.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Carl.Gould](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/carl.gould/32/7262_2.png) [@Carl.Gould](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Carl.Gould)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 3:04am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/editing-floating-point-numbers-with-fancy-controls/1426/3 "2010-01-09T03:04:33Z")

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> [@neville](#):
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> Thanks

You're welcome 😉

Glad you got it figured out.

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**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 9:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/editing-floating-point-numbers-with-fancy-controls/1426/4 "2017-08-23T21:56:57Z")

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Old topic, but just for info, I also needed to set the display format to include the decimal e.g. #,##0.0 for this to work. The default is set to #,##0 and despite setting to Double and an increment of 0.1, it won’t work until you change format.