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Alastair
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| Posted: 10:09am 02 Oct 2017 |
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Is it possible to change the button colour during execution? I find the split button for ON|OFF say not obvious which is down. I would like to have an ON button in green when it is enabled and the OFF button bright red when enabled.
Have I missed something? I have currently used gui led above the buttons to simulate the above but it just adds 'noise' and additional controls.
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Alastair
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| Posted: 01:01pm 02 Oct 2017 |
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Ok - so I can't read the manual.
Looks like gui FColour is what I want.
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Grogster
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| Posted: 03:54pm 02 Oct 2017 |
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panky
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| Posted: 02:28pm 03 Oct 2017 |
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Alastair,
I think the forground/background colours on the GUI switch command relate to the switch colour and the text colour.
The ON/OFF indication is half intensity.
The following kluge simulates a switch that toggles on and off with each touch and shows as red for off and green for on.
' Demo of a toggle switch type function
GUI displaybox #1,120,120,120,120,RGB(green),RGB(black)
GUI displaybox #2,120,120,120,120,RGB(red),RGB(black)
GUI area #3,120,120,120,120 'define touch area
GUI interrupt flip_sw
GUI hide #1
GUI show #2 ' default to off
Dim tst_sw As integer
tst_sw = 0 ' set switch to off
Do
' nothing to see here .... except main program
Loop
Sub flip_sw ' subroutine called by touch interrupt
If tst_sw = 0 Then
GUI hide #2
GUI show #1
Else
GUI hide #1
GUI show #2
EndIf
tst_sw = Not tst_sw ' invert switch ready for next touch
End Sub
Hope this helps.
panky
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panky
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| Posted: 06:48pm 03 Oct 2017 |
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.... slight mod to show button more clearly
' Demo of a toggle switch type function
GUI displaybox #4,119,119,122,122,RGB(white),RGB(black)
GUI displaybox #1,120,120,60,120,RGB(black),RGB(green)
GUI displaybox #2,180,120,60,120,RGB(black),RGB(red)
GUI area #3,120,120,120,120 'define touch area
GUI interrupt flip_sw
GUI hide #1
GUI show #2 ' default to off
Dim tst_sw As integer
tst_sw = 0 ' set switch to off
Do
' nothing to see here .... except main program
Loop
Sub flip_sw ' subroutine called by touch interrupt
If tst_sw = 0 Then
GUI hide #2
GUI show #1
Else
GUI hide #1
GUI show #2
EndIf
tst_sw = Not tst_sw ' invert switch ready for next touch
End Sub
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Alastair
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| Posted: 11:38am 04 Oct 2017 |
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Panky,
thanks. I will play with your idea when I have a moment.
Whilst I think the MM is a great, the gui button , especially when split, is a little disappointing. My skills are too rusty to consider modifying the basic code. Also I realise any enhancements come at a cost in terms of overhead and kernel size.
In most cases everything works well but there are times, especially when doing things for use by non-computer oriented people, i would like to have an option that is more intuitive. I will look again at the Nextion type displays which should work well with the MM and allow a step up in gui design.
https://www.itead.cc/display/nextion.html
Cheers, Alastair |
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Alastair
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| Posted: 10:45am 06 Oct 2017 |
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Panky,
following your post I decided to play with your idea which looked good. I also decided that to start thinking of moving to the Nextion displays was silly if my only real concern was cosmetic and the split button which I found was often misunderstood.
I found that because the gui button does not respond to a touch when it is hidden, then it is quite ok to put 2 buttons on top of each other. This gives a user only 1 appropriate option. EG
'test of overlaid buttons
cls
backlight=50
gui button 2,"ON", 100,100,100,100,rgb(white), rgb(green)
gui button 3,"OFF", 100,100,100,100,rgb(white), rgb(red)
gui hide 3
gui show 2
gui interrupt btn_dn,btn_up
do
loop
end
sub btn_up
btn=touch(lastref)
if btn=2 then
gui hide 2
gui show 3
elseif btn=3 then
gui hide 3
gui show 2
endif
end sub
sub btn_dn
end sub
Edited by Alastair 2017-10-07
Cheers, Alastair |
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