Is there any way to create a color picker like the one in the color bulb device handler for an input in a SmartApp? Having to take Hue and Saturation from the user as integers is pretty awful, it gives them no feedback what the color they picked is. It doesn’t even correspond to the usual 0-360 degree range for hue.
On the same note, how about a slider for a numeric input, similar to the slider for level in a basic dimmer device handler?
The documentation for SmartApps is completely mum about anything except the most basic of inputs, such as text, enum, numeric, etc. No fancy gadgets to help a user dial in a preference.
Yeah, that’s certainly an option but I’d rather let a user pick burnt orange instead of just orange if they so choose, so I’ll just take the integer and run with it. SmartThings users by definition have to be at least somewhat smart so it’ll just have to be that way.
Is there a good place for feature requests? I don’t see a forum for it, but this would be a fantastic feature.
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tgauchat
(ActionTiles.com co-founder Terry @ActionTiles; GitHub: @cosmicpuppy)
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LOL! 70% of the Forum is feature requests. Take a number!
More seriously:
We have already seen demos, and we know it exists inside SmartTiles the feature called “HTML Tiles”. This will allow developers to code in HTML5 with a controlled JavaScript library.
With that, developers will be able to write much richer interfaces, including nice color pickers, etc.
Secret: I’m pretty sure (from the looks of it), that the next version of CoRE is using HTML Tiles. Correction: Nope… Not released to Community Developers yet!
