From e0f548085cc9c29e85122d393e74143eb5de1d4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joshua Diamond Date: Sat, 9 May 2020 04:38:33 -0400 Subject: Add ability to blink lighting layer for a specified duration (#8760) * Implement momentarily blink of lighting layers * Refactor spidey3 userspace to use rgb layer blink * Remove un-necessary line from example in documentation * Revert "Refactor spidey3 userspace to use rgb layer blink" This reverts commit 831649bb680c41c6d663ae6fa86d13f4f8bebdd8. * Adds a missing bit of documentation about lighting layer blink * Update docs/feature_rgblight.md per suggestions Co-authored-by: James Young <18669334+noroadsleft@users.noreply.github.com> * Update docs/feature_rgblight.md per suggestions Co-authored-by: James Young <18669334+noroadsleft@users.noreply.github.com> * Update docs/feature_rgblight.md per suggestions Co-authored-by: James Young <18669334+noroadsleft@users.noreply.github.com> * cformat, as suggested Co-authored-by: James Young <18669334+noroadsleft@users.noreply.github.com> --- docs/config_options.md | 4 +++- docs/feature_rgblight.md | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/config_options.md b/docs/config_options.md index 16fea83a33..f766857025 100644 --- a/docs/config_options.md +++ b/docs/config_options.md @@ -191,7 +191,9 @@ If you define these options you will enable the associated feature, which may in * `#define RGBLIGHT_ANIMATIONS` * run RGB animations * `#define RGBLIGHT_LAYERS` - * Lets you define [lighting layers](feature_rgblight.md) that can be toggled on or off. Great for showing the current keyboard layer or caps lock state. + * Lets you define [lighting layers](feature_rgblight.md?id=lighting-layers) that can be toggled on or off. Great for showing the current keyboard layer or caps lock state. +* `#define RGBLIGHT_LAYER_BLINK` + * Adds ability to [blink](feature_rgblight.md?id=lighting-layer-blink) a lighting layer for a specified number of milliseconds (e.g. to acknowledge an action). * `#define RGBLED_NUM 12` * number of LEDs * `#define RGBLIGHT_SPLIT` diff --git a/docs/feature_rgblight.md b/docs/feature_rgblight.md index 219cd8317b..de19b74197 100644 --- a/docs/feature_rgblight.md +++ b/docs/feature_rgblight.md @@ -177,6 +177,8 @@ const uint8_t RGBLED_GRADIENT_RANGES[] PROGMEM = {255, 170, 127, 85, 64}; By including `#define RGBLIGHT_LAYERS` in your `config.h` file you can enable lighting layers. These make it easy to use your underglow LEDs as status indicators to show which keyboard layer is currently active, or the state of caps lock, all without disrupting any animations. [Here's a video](https://youtu.be/uLGE1epbmdY) showing an example of what you can do. +### Defining Lighting Layers :id=defining-lighting-layers + To define a layer, we modify `keymap.c` to list out LED ranges and the colors we want to overlay on them using an array of `rgblight_segment_t` using the `RGBLIGHT_LAYER_SEGMENTS` macro. We can define multiple layers and enable/disable them independently: ```c @@ -211,8 +213,12 @@ void keyboard_post_init_user(void) { rgblight_layers = my_rgb_layers; } ``` +Note: For split keyboards with two controllers, both sides need to be flashed when updating the contents of rgblight_layers. -Finally, we enable and disable the lighting layers whenever the state of the keyboard changes: +### Enabling and disabling lighting layers :id=enabling-lighting-layers + +Everything above just configured the definition of each lighting layer. +We can now enable and disable the lighting layers whenever the state of the keyboard changes: ```c layer_state_t layer_state_set_user(layer_state_t state) { @@ -228,7 +234,40 @@ bool led_update_user(led_t led_state) { } ``` -Note: For split keyboards with two controllers, both sides need to be flashed when updating the contents of rgblight_layers. +### Lighting layer blink :id=lighting-layer-blink + +By including `#define RGBLIGHT_LAYER_BLINK` in your `config.h` file you can turn a lighting +layer on for a specified duration. Once the specified number of milliseconds has elapsed +the layer will be turned off. This is useful, e.g., if you want to acknowledge some +action (e.g. toggling some setting): + +```c +const rgblight_segment_t PROGMEM _yes_layer[] = RGBLIGHT_LAYER_SEGMENTS( {9, 6, HSV_GREEN} ); +const rgblight_segment_t PROGMEM _no_layer[] = RGBLIGHT_LAYER_SEGMENTS( {9, 6, HSV_RED} ); + +const rgblight_segment_t* const PROGMEM _rgb_layers[] = + RGBLIGHT_LAYERS_LIST( _yes_layer, _no_layer ); + +void keyboard_post_init_user(void) { + rgblight_layers = _rgb_layers; +} + +// Note we user post_process_record_user because we want the state +// after the flag has been flipped... +void post_process_record_user(uint16_t keycode, keyrecord_t *record) { + switch (keycode) { + case DEBUG: + rgblight_blink_layer(debug_enable ? 0 : 1, 500); + break; + + case NK_TOGG: + case NK_ON: + case NK_OFF: + rgblight_blink_layer(keymap_config.nkro ? 0 : 1, 500); + break; + } +} +``` ## Functions -- cgit v1.2.3