button acting as a led

[ataxy]

i was wondering if it was possible to get the button to act as a led at the same time as a button, so that lets say you push the reset button the button start blincking

[Greolt]

Yes that is fairly straight forward to do.

You need to make a two state LED graphic. For example of what I mean look in the bitmaps / millBitMaps folder and look at "BlueLED.png" or "conditions.png"

When you have made your button graphic then you can assign it in Screen4 as the image to use for your LED. Set it as "Red/Green Flashing"

Now to make that LED appear and work as a button on screen you place an "Image Button" over the top of it.

And here is the trick.....make yourself a transparent png image and use that as the image for the button.

If you don't do the last bit the flashing LED won't work. Don't ask me why. I don't know. It is one of Screen4's many little quirks.

Greg

[ger21]

You're LED should look something like this.
http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showpo...9&postcount=69

[ger21]

The way I do it, is to first place the LED, and lock it in place, and place the image button next to it for testing. Do NOT attach the transparent image yet. Once I know that it's working, I then move the button image in place, and lock it in place. Only then do I add the transparent image. The reason for this is that once you add the transparent image, you can't see it anymore, and it gets tricky.

Also, here's the transparent image I use.

[ataxy]

ok i made a led button but it wont stop flashing when i click it i based it on the setting of the led and button of the reset button of the 1024.set but like i have just said the led wont stop flashing when i click the real button, the first box is my translucide png and, well as you can see its transparent

[ger21]

Is the transparent button set to "System Function", "Reset" ?

[ataxy]

yep it is and the led is set to oem code 800

[ger21]

Try the system function for the reset LED. If you can't get it to work, if you post it I'll check it for you.

[ataxy]

ok ill try it and post back the result

[ataxy]

unfortunatly there is no option for reset in the system function of led here is the set and image folder i use to try it
ps: the archive is a rar file so switch back the extension to .rar

[Greolt]

The system function for the LED is called "EStop"

OEM code 800 works anyway, so either will do.

You did not have the LED set to "Red/Green Flashing" as explained in post 2.

When that is set, it flashes as you wanted.

Greg

[ataxy]

yes maybe it wasnt in the set file i posted but when i set it to red/green flashing it just keep blinking when i push the button.... unless the problem is because i have no offline button setup