Sorry for no news these past few months. It's been very hectic since the new family addition back in Dec which I managed to keep low key. I feel so guilty now for neglecting this blog and my readers (don't think I have any regulars anyway so I guess nothing missed!), but hey priorities are priorities!

Right, the reason for this post is that there has been some recent exciting updates to the spinner which I would love to get feedback on from the public. Thanks to Brant Burnett, the Spinner has been re-invigorated and looks set to become a kick ass component in the making!

We've added a bunch of new features and updates including:

• support for jquery 1.3.2
• support for ThemeRoller
• spinning hexidecimals and other numbering systems
• ability to auto-hide buttons and show on hover with customizable speeds
• better keyboard interaction - you could now use PgUp/PgDn to setup up/down in a large increment set by options

We also have a lot more in the works, such as:

• ability to spin time and date
• segment spinning based on formatter
• HTML5 support
• and more...

If interested, check out the latest demo

We're still in the planning / development stage so any features you see now or currently being planned may not necessarily land in the final release. It all depends on what you want - collectively that is! So if there is something you really think should be added please shout in the dev mailing list or on the UI planning wiki.

Looking forward to some feedback.

Thanks!

After contributing jQuery Numeric Stepper to the jQuery UI community. Paul Bakaus kindly asked whether I'd like to merge it with the official jQuery UI Spinner, of which I was more than happy to do out of pure love for jQuery.

The jQuery UI Spinner widget will be available with the soon to be released jQuery UI v1.6.

Here's a demo of the current incarnation.

Also, check out Subversion if you're interested in getting the latest and greatest.

Update: this spin control is currently in re-design phase and will come under intense refactoring to be leaner and meaner. So the UI team have decided to push back its release to v1.next, which means it will not be part of the final 1.6 release. Sorry guys!

Update2: I've posted an update on this here.

As an experiement I ported over my Accessible Numeric Stepper into a jQuery widget and added some accessibility enhancements and new features in the process.

This widget utilises ui.core.js - a factory method object for creating widget classes. Widgets in jQuery are essentially plugins at heart but built to follow stricter coding standards in order to unify the underlying quality between developers. It also adds convenient mouse interaction classes and option settings among other things.

The result is jQuery Numeric Stepper an unofficial jQuery UI widget. Features include:

• min, max, start and step size settings
• supports decimal values and decimal step sizes
• supports currency values
• keyboard and mousewheel interaction - increment/decrement values via cursor keys, +/- keys and mousewheel

Download latest source code here

Bugs? Missing feature? Code improvements? Let me know!

Update: Features seen here are now part of the official jQuery UI Spinner, set for the 1.6 release of jQuery UI. More details.