The need for a good way to split stacks (and description of a bad way)

[Paper Weasel]

There is no good way to split a large stack of items. If you have a couple thousand silver ore and want to trade two hundred to a friendly neighborhood smelter, you click on your stack of silver ore two. hundred. times. And likely as not you click just a bit too fast and wind up dumping your whole supply into the trade window, and have to start all over again.

(For some reason, clicking quickly on a stack never seems to move the whole thing when you want it to, as when dumping inventory to the bank. But that's another matter.)

As it turns out, the technology for splitting stacks is already in game! With a little slider bar and a number and everything. Perfect!

The problem is that this tech only applies to trashing items from your inventory.

Thus cometh the terrible, bad way to split stacks! Simply toss some amount on the ground (with the ease and convenience of a slidey stack-splitting bar), trade or deposit the remainder, then pick the trash back up.
...it is probably obvious why I call this way terrible.

So, a request to GW: can we just get that slider bar for every stack click-and-drag? It would be wonderful to split large stacks quickly, easily and without significant risk of accidentally deleting our stuff.

[Nihimon]

Alt-Click should move the entire stack
Shift-Click should bring up a stack-split interface
Ctrl-Click could split the stack in half

Even though it seems much easier lately to double-click, it still fails far too often.

[Urman]

Or:

click moves 1x
shift-click moves 10x
alt-click moves 100x
cntl-click moves all

Much faster than manipulating a slider bar.

[Diego Rossi]

Or Alt click, open window, enter a number.
Like the one we use to withdraw money from the bank.

[Schedim]

And the slider dont work for me.... So writing the number is good for me, but it would be nice if it propageted to the whole UI, that is true!

[Thod]

Yes this needs a better solution. Before encumbrance I wouldn't bother and just take 168 pine logs to the saw mill or 98 hides to Hammerfall (closest town with tanner).

With encumbrance on now it isn't just trading with others that needs splitting.