On January 24th, I posted about the slider widget and the concept of inversion; rather than the slider having the maximum value at the bottom, having the maximum value be at the top. The short recap is that someone submitted a patch for wxWidgets to add inversion, the patch pretty much sucked, and because I needed inversion for BitWise on OS X, I went ahead and worked on the inversion. On Thursday, I finally added inversion for the Windows version, thus completing support for inverted sliders on the "big 3" [platforms: Windows, Linux and Mac OS X].
Today, someone posted on the wxWidgets users mailing list inquiring about how to make a slider have the maximum value at the top rather than the bottom, because they wanted to use a slider to represent volume where the highest volume is intuitively at the top. [Nevermind that it would be really easy to view the slider as max - value when computing the volume, but no matter.] Anyway, someone beat me to the punch replying, but it was a thrill to see the answer: "Yes, but only in 2.5.4 (not released yet) where wxSL_INVERSE style has been added to do exactly this." That's thanks to yours truly!
Of course, my root motivation was making sliders work for BitWise on OS X they way that I needed them to, but hey... doesn't mean it can't make someone else's day! It's always nice to feel useful, even if it is anonymous and unrewarded.