[support] Views Taxonomy and dropdownlist

[kt992321 at gmail.com]

Hello,

I'm a Drupal newbie.

I'm using latest stable version of Drupal 7 and Views 3.

I have a content type which represents sewing machines :
* brand
* model
* year
* power (watt)

I have a view to show all the sewing machines.

Now I want to make a view with "year" as exposed filter. Actually I want 
the user to be able to select a range (between XXXX and YYYY), I want to 
show this filter as two dropdownlists.

I've read about "hook_form_alter" to change exposed filters aspect 
(change a text input to a select list) but I would like to know if it is 
possible to do the same thing using a mix with Taxonomy ?

I know that it is possible to create dropdownlist (select list) with 
taxonomy terms. But is it possible to use this list of terms to select 
fields from a content type within a view ?

Note that the dropdownlist could also be a slider input like this : 
http://www.html5tutorial.info/images/slider_gallery.png


Regards,
K.