JSlider with Floating point values

Question

I desperatly need to create a JSlider with floating/decimal values. For example between 0 and 1 and ticks within an interval of 0.1.
The default behaviour of JSlider doesn't allow me to do so, hence is there any other way around ? I know it's possible to programmatically handle the required calculation by divding the values by 10, 100 or anything, but i want to display the actual values (floating/decimal) on the JSlider bar.
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

this might do you for the display
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
class JSliderLabels extends JFrame
  public JSliderLabels()
    setLocation(400,200);
    setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    JSlider slider = new JSlider(0, 100, 1);
    slider.setMajorTickSpacing(25);
    slider.setPaintTicks(true);
    java.util.Hashtable labelTable = new java.util.Hashtable();
    labelTable.put(new Integer(100), new JLabel("1.0"));
    labelTable.put(new Integer(75), new JLabel("0.75"));
    labelTable.put(new Integer(50), new JLabel("0.50"));
    labelTable.put(new Integer(25), new JLabel("0.25"));
    labelTable.put(new Integer(0), new JLabel("0.0"));
    slider.setLabelTable( labelTable );
    slider.setPaintLabels(true);
    JPanel jp = new JPanel();
    jp.add(slider);
    getContentPane().add(jp);
    pack();
  public static void main(String[] args){new JSliderLabels().setVisible(true);}
}