[Request] Background Blinking

[cgarwood]

Describe the feature
The ability to set the background and/or foreground colors to blink between two sets of colors. Bonus if we can configure the speed at which it changes.

Is this platform dependent (windows, mac, ..)?
no

If documentation is required to implement, do you know where to find it?
n/a

Usecases
If you're recording or streaming and want to draw more attention to that fact, you could have the background of the recording button blink between black and red.

Blinking the button for an input that's currently live on a switcher

Drawing attention to something that's in an error state.

etc.

[Fred-DTV]

Just somer more usecase examples:

• a muted microfon (never forget to unmute a commentator again after a break)
• a timer went to 0:00
• callback from an other position or device
• Battery level feedback
• on buttons with a lot of delayed steps it could be a great addition to see when it reached the last step

[plasticpool]

I agree with all the use cases here – just knowing that a microphone channel is open (or not) with a flashing/blinking button state would be super helpful, and I'd be happy to contribute to a bounty toward implementing this.

[mdgnys]

A great way to accomplish this would be a module that supplies instance feedback that is simply a constantly switching Boolean back and fourth.

[shaunar2006]

This would be awesome! I need this!

[justingiffard]

This would really be awesome, from a dev point of view it would be cool if there was a way to specify the frequency of the flashes too. I'd like to add feedback to the X32 module for the tap delay that it gives the user a visual idea of what the delay is like the tap delay on the console

actually thinking of coding something in the module which changes the feedback at the specified frequency but that code could get ugly

[HaxNobody]

Here's how I implemented blinking buttons:

1. Set up a new custom variable, let's call it "Flash" for now. You should be able to use the same variable for multiple different buttons, and you can create more variables for different flash patterns.
2. Set up a trigger that is also called Flash or something similar, and configure the Condition to be Time Interval
3. Set the time interval to 1 (seconds)
4. Tick the "Relative Delays" box
5. Add an Action for "internal: Set custom variable value", configure the Delay to 500ms, select your custom variable, and set the Value to 0
6. Add another Action the exact same as step 5, but set the Value to 1
7. Configure your button to add a Feedback of "internal: Check variable value" and set it to your custom variable, with default '=' Operation and the Value as 1.
8. Finally, configure the text color and background color that you want to switch to with each flash, different from the initial setting at the top of the button config.

Done - you can adjust all the trigger timings to make your flasher work the way you want it to.

[codered11343]

Here's how I implemented blinking buttons:

1. Set up a new custom variable, let's call it "Flash" for now. You should be able to use the same variable for multiple different buttons, and you can create more variables for different flash patterns.
2. Set up a trigger that is also called Flash or something similar, and configure the Condition to be Time Interval
3. Set the time interval to 1 (seconds)
4. Tick the "Relative Delays" box
5. Add an Action for "internal: Set custom variable value", configure the Delay to 500ms, select your custom variable, and set the Value to 0
6. Add another Action the exact same as step 5, but set the Value to 1
7. Configure your button to add a Feedback of "internal: Check variable value" and set it to your custom variable, with default '=' Operation and the Value as 1.
8. Finally, configure the text color and background color that you want to switch to with each flash, different from the initial setting at the top of the button config.

Done - you can adjust all the trigger timings to make your flasher work the way you want it to.

Thank you. This was exactly the guidance I was looking for. But to go a step further, would it be possible to make it so that button paused its flashing after the button was pressed, then resumed flashing after it hadn't been pressed after a certain amount of time? Like 5 minutes? If this is currently possible, how would you program that?