Feature Request: Strip layout Colouring

[George Davies]

Hello,

Im doing a rather complex layout with a lot of chains of strips, would it be possible to add a feature whereby you can colour code the strips by group in the stages screen? Would make things a whole lot easier for laying out!

Thanks

George

[Mathieu Lightjams]

That's an interesting idea but would adding an option to hide the strips not included in the strip list filter box work as well?

[George Davies]

I just had a play with it, hiding them from the filter list isn't ideal for a couple of reasons:

-My groups are labelled 1 to 30, and the strips are labelled RGBW01, RGBW02 etc etc, so if I filter by 1 I get all of the RGBW01 strips and all groups with a 1 in (1,10-19,21 etc) (I realise this can be fixed from better group names)

-For a big project like this I will usually make a colour coded map showing where the strips start and finish in their groups for manufacture, and if I could also similarly colour code the stage in ELM then I can do a quick visual check to ensure they line up

Saying that it would be a useful feature to have for other reasons I'm sure!

I realise the colour coding strips could be misleading from a UX point of view as users may think thats the current colour of the LED strip or something, but maybe it would only show the colours when the strips are selected in the strip list or something?

Also I think there is a minor bug with how the strip list is sorted, for my 1-30 groups, on startup the list is arranged 1-30, but if I sort the list by group they go 1,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,2,20,21,22 etc etc.

 

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[itx...@gmail.com]

>>Also I think there is a minor bug with how the strip list is sorted, for my 1-30 groups, on startup the list is arranged 1-30, but if I sort the list by group they go 1,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,2,20,21,22 etc etc.

You must add a leading 0 to the group numbers >10 for correct numerical sorting, 01, 02, 03 etc.

[bart.s...@gmail.com]

I think color coding based on (sub)group is a great idea. On some projects, I printed the stage in black and white and used a neon highlighter to visually organize the groups.

If ELM could generate a printer friendly stage lay-out, with start addresses, names, etc, that would super helpful.

greets,

Bart

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