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