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 methodThe text method The activearea method Index