The slider method
What we are going to do now is add a little LED-like display emitting a brief flash when changing states. Let's just go
with the
led_green.bmp
from the
cFos
"Modern" skin for this section.
[disp7]
value=latency
method=slider
rect=111,50,117,56
bitmap=led_green.bmp
scale=2
stepsize=1
frames=3
min=0
max=2
updatetime=200
transform1=170,0,0,205,255,255,224,0,0,225,255,150
transform2=0,0,0,10,255,255,225,190,140,226,191,141
This section displays the value of the
latency
parameter (see our
skin definition reference page
), which can either be 0 (low latency is off) or 1 (low latency is on). With
scale
set to 2, the original parameter is projected onto a range from 0 to 2. In combination with
stepsize
,
frames
,
min
and
max
, this will have the animation run through all of its three frames each time the original value changes from 0 to 1. Animation
speed is controlled by the value entered for
updatetime
, which determines the time each frame is shown in milliseconds.
Color transformations are used here to correct some minor glitches in the original bitmap's shadow colors.
Next step:
Switching sections by using the activearea method