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Topic: Animated Push-Button?

Hello,

I have now used remoteXY for the first time and am really impressed with how easy and well it works. However, I would like it if a button object were animated (color change or similar), so that you get a visual feedback that the button press was really “registered”.

The Push-Switch is already a bit like that by changing the label text.
Is there already a way to animate the push button?
If not, then this post would be a feature request :-).

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Re: Animated Push-Button?

Kai_R wrote:

Hello,

I have now used remoteXY for the first time and am really impressed with how easy and well it works. However, I would like it if a button object were animated (color change or similar), so that you get a visual feedback that the button press was really “registered”.

The Push-Switch is already a bit like that by changing the label text.
Is there already a way to animate the push button?
If not, then this post would be a feature request :-).

Place an LED on top (in front) of the button, it will still work.

The LED can then be configured to look like a multi-state button.

2B, or not 2B, that is the pencil ...

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Re: Animated Push-Button?

Thank you for your answer @Daba. But I was probably a bit blind. The feedback is already there (the button becomes darker when it is pressed).

But I didn't notice it at first.

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Kai_R wrote:

Thank you for your answer @Daba. But I was probably a bit blind. The feedback is already there (the button becomes darker when it is pressed).

Agreed, but that feedback has only that single state.

An LED in front of the button can be configured with up to 8 states, allowing the button to switch between multiple selections without having to use a selector.

For example, I have a page of buttons that allow me to set the HDMI source for 8 TV's (Sports Bar), each press sets the source selection to one of 3 sources, Green channel, Red Channel, and Blue Channel. I light up the LED in the selected channel colour.  This provides an "at-a-glance" indication of which HDMI source each TV is set to receive, and de-clutters the display.

https://remotexy.com/en/editor/a6dc74f1 … a7b448c97/

I've shared the project so you can take a look.

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