Special LED control with three states - Default, ON, OFF

[Mathan]

There are lot of posts in the forum regarding the design of a boolean control with 3 states "On", "Off", "Default". This is very useful when during some tests the LED should initially be in one color say "black", if test passes, it should display "green" color and if test fails, it should display "red" color. If this comes as a special LED in the front panel, this will prevent extra coding.

[JackDunaway]

I understand the use as an indicator; how would it behave as a control?

[altenbach]

How about the Mixed Checkbox?

It definitely needs some logic, because a boolean can only have two states. (see also this example).

 You could easily make an xcontrol using a colorbox my color LED. 😉

[Mathan]

@JackDunaway, Yes you are right, i wrongly mentioned it as control instead of indicator.

@Altenbach, Thanks for the useful links....

[muks]

You can also use an invoke node to "reinitialize to default" after setting the black color as the default one right? Is your suggestion different from my understanding? you can use a property node also

Message Edited by muks on 10-05-2009 02:29 PM

[altenbach]

muks, setting something to default only resets the value, not any property, such as color.

So, this would only work if it is implemented as a colorbox, picture ring, etc..