redraw problem ? Why ???

malc · 5 Feb 2006

Hi autodafe,

I'm away at the moment and don't have SM here so I can't look at your schematic. It looks like the redraw area is not being computed correctly.

Is the slider supposed to be a solid bar like in the first picture whose height changes? Or is it supposed to a square that moves up and down? I suspect it's the latter in which case you need to make sure that your redraw area needs to be a combination of the previous area and the new area. However, you can make it easy by just using a Redraw component to redraw the whole area occupied by the slider.

Malc.

jorge · 5 Feb 2006

Hi autodafe

As Malc suggested, deleting the RedrawArea component and replacing it with a Redraw component works here:

skOre · 5 Feb 2006

If in doubt, expand the redraw area. Note that for your manuals 🙂

autodafe · 5 Feb 2006

thanks everybody. it should be a "solid" bar which expands and change color gradually.. i've tried the simple "redraw" before but couldn't get it working... i will try again in a few minutes...

i'll let you know...

autodafe · 5 Feb 2006

OK, many thanks.

I replaced the "REDRAW AREA" with a "REDRAW" component and everything is ok now . 😀

sonicfire · 24 Mar 2006

Sorry, i know this topic is a bit old - but - why cant you move the slider on the main GUI? (When in editing mode)... you can place the background image but not the slider?

jorge · 24 Mar 2006

sonicfire wrote: Sorry, i know this topic is a bit old - but - why cant you move the slider on the main GUI? (When in editing mode)... you can place the background image but not the slider?

Because the background image module has an MGUI component inside while the sliding module doesnt. To make the sliding module moveable in the front panel insert an MGUI inside it and connect the View input going through it.

The MGUI component is where the front panel x and y coordinates are stored, it basically transforms what comes after it into a front panel moveable object.

Probably better behaviour would be to integrate the background and the sliding into one front panel object sharing the same MGUI, quite easy to do.

I assume you're just learning but if what you want is a working version of the slider in this thread let me know and I'll fix it and post the schematic.

sonicfire · 24 Mar 2006

thank you very much! 🙂

yes, i am just learning 😇 . All seems very complex to me - but hopefully someday i will also be able to create something more complex with SM! 😀

jorge · 24 Mar 2006

sonicfire wrote: yes, i am just learning 😇 . All seems very complex to me - but hopefully someday i will also be able to create something more complex with SM! 😀

Just remember that you can stay at whichever level you want, you dont have to go low level. Any high level module that you might need, try posting a request here in the forum and I bet very shortly after you'll have it.

And if you still want to learn low level ( you can go as low as you want all the way down to assembler code ) just keep asking questions, I can try to explain starting with very simple examples.