I want to change the font color of a button when it is active(pressed) and for it to hold that color until it is turned off.

I have a page for an 8X8 matrix and I want the client to be able to see what sources are active for the four displays.

for the life of me I can not remember how to do this......I know flags, but ......................................help!

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Maybe I'm wrong but I don't think it's possible to change the font color based on the state. I'm pretty sure it's global for that button.

You could however, create some different color text pngs, set their visible states, set them as inactive, and stack them over the button.

If you don't have photoshop, let me know the font type, size, text(Cable/Bluray/etc.), colors, and I can throw them together for you.

Ya much much much easier using variables. Have 2 overlaying buttons and set their visibility variables.

no two way feedback from matrix?

To change the active text color of a button, first select the button, then at the bottom of ID where there is a color toolbar for "normal" and "active" click on the "A" for text color in the active portion and it will allow you to change the active color separate from the normal color. The default colors upon program startup are blue for normal and white for active.

For your matrix application, if you are using a 2-way driver, you can reverse the button based on input selection for a specific zone in the button properties.

Wow, should have known it was probably something that easy within ID.....thanks for the tip.

If you aren't using a matrix that has an RTI two-way driver then you don't have a way of making a single button stay in it's active state. It would take a bunch of pages but you could fake the feedback with pages.

you could also fake it with flags . . if i remember correctly.

For this to work you would have to list all sources and program the button for the source to show active when selected on input command. Very possible but the client would have to understand the "red"source meant active source.

There has to be a way with flags or maybe scrolling lists to display desired text of the selected source. Of course this assumes a matrix with 2 way drivers. I'm thinking create all source buttons buttons invisible and have them become visible with a certain driver command.

using a Zektor so I have feedback

I believe that if you set the Zektor input to 0 then that output is considered off. I have a current project that I need to finish up in the next two weeks and that is one of the things I need to test.

So you can reverse the color based on the analog output state. No flags needed.

Most if not all of the the 2way matrix drivers use a boolean logic for input display meaning it only gives you true/false if the the output is switched to a specific input and not direct text of what input of 8 is selected. If the input combo is true it shows input# and if false shows nothing(invisible). You can change what the actual text is (instead of 6 it could say Bluray) in the text edit dialog by clicking on the {var} icon. To just have one line of text that showed the current input on an 8X8 you would put 8 text boxes with the boolean of the 8 inputs for output 1 stacked on each other. Only one of them would show at any one time showing the currently selected source.

yeah for Zektor input 0 is considered "MUTED" or Off.

It's amazing how simple we still keep things. In computers 1=on and 0=off.