MX025 - Custom Images in Flowcode

[Sean]

Article: https://www.matrixtsl.com/resources/get ... php?id=436

Please discuss this article here.

[medelec35]

Sean, the way you have customised the panel was really cleaver and looks great!
Like the idea of using a closed window for one state of a switch, when you click on the window, icon changes to show broken glass, with a burglar covering his ears, which changes state of the switch.
I know the idea is to create our own custom images, but are any more being developed by matrix staff, since what have be shown so far in CustomImageAlarm I’m impressed with! Would love to download a file with a load more animated images in for switches etc.

[Sean]

We will be providing an image library with the next Flowcode update. Most of the alternative switch/led images will be more conventional than the example program (sensors, solenoids, illuminated signs etc.)

The images used in the example program were very easy to find on the internet, and to edit.
The door and window images both came with the burglar present, and were saved directly in .png format as the ON images.
I used CorelDraw to remove the burglar from each image (he was drawn as several individual objects which could be selected and deleted) and saved the results as the OFF images.

[Sean]

The Flowcode V4 custom image library is now available from our website:-

http://www.matrixmultimedia.com/softwar ... images.zip

[Sean]

Here is the example alarm program from the original article:

CustomImageAlarm.fcf

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[Jan Lichtenbelt]

Dear Sean

I took me a while to find out that I have first to change the type into custum type. But then it works fine!!!

Kind regards

Jan Lichtenbelt