Re: [Lcd4linux-devel] New display: LEDMATRIX

[Michael R. <re...@eu...>]

Hi Till,

> i have added RGB support to the LEDMATRIX display. 

Great! Pictures! I wanna see pictures!

( I showed your pictures to my girlfriend. she said "really nice, but...
YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BUY THIS". Maybe you're familiar with this special
kind of timbre :-)

> Furthermore i made a change
> to the widget item which you might not like and which can easily be removed 
> again: I added the parameter "extracolor" which can be used to specify a 
> third color (besides foregound and background). This color is meant to be
> used for widget specific "special" purposes. I have changed the bar widget
> to use this color for the bordert (if style is set to hollow).
> 
> You can just ignore the new color and everything will look like it did before. 
> But if you use it you can change the border color of the bar.
> 
> Do you think this is a good idea?

I think it's a very good idea. I didn't look at the code now, but this
is a special attribute for the bar widget, isn't it? So why not call it
"border color" or something?

Due to the fact that your display seems to be the first multi-color
display available for lcd4linux, we didn't think about colors too much
in the past. Hopefully this will change in the future...


bye, Michael

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