Setting tick marks for UISlider

Question

Is there any method for setting tick marks for UISlider. NSSlider has something called - (void)setNumberOfTickMarks:(NSInteger)numberOfTickMarks. But UISlider does not appear to have one.

What i want to do is get the slider values as 0,1,2,3,4 etc if say i set the min as 0 and max as 5. Now as such UISLider returns something like 0.0,0.1,0.2,0.3 etc 4.8,4.9,5.0 based on the example i gave above.

Any help??

Answer 1

I just cast [slider value] to int to achieve this.

Answer 2

UISlider doesn't have any tickmarks.

To get the behaviour you specify you'll have to round the number returned by the slider to the nearest integer.

So when you start sliding, and the slider reports a value of 0.1 or 0.2, round that to 0. Until it hits 0.5, when you round up to 1.

Then when the slider stops sliding, you can set it's value to the number you rounded to, which will make the slider "snap" to that position, kind like snapping to a tick mark.

If you want visual tickmarks, you'll have to implement that yourself.