Currently the mdc-slider has two modes. Continuous and discrete. For authors of components that are based on the MDC foundations, it would be nice to be able to toggle the mode of the slider programmatically.
Currently the slider mode is determined on initialization by checking if a given class exists or not. This is not ideal as re-initializing the slider in favor of changing the internal mode (just so that track markers are rendered) is not acceptable performance-wise.
Proposed solution
Add a method to the foundation like setDiscrete(boolean)
Alternatives considered
Making the isDiscrete_ class member public. A method would not be necessary but would match up with the other public methods on the foundation.
Feature Request
Currently the mdc-slider has two modes. Continuous and discrete. For authors of components that are based on the MDC foundations, it would be nice to be able to toggle the mode of the slider programmatically.
Currently the slider mode is determined on initialization by checking if a given class exists or not. This is not ideal as re-initializing the slider in favor of changing the internal mode (just so that track markers are rendered) is not acceptable performance-wise.
Proposed solution
Add a method to the foundation like
setDiscrete(boolean)
Alternatives considered
Making the
isDiscrete_
class member public. A method would not be necessary but would match up with the other public methods on the foundation.Additional context
Related to https://github.com/angular/components/pull/16795