Add RGB Panel - Vertical/Horizontal alignment

[potetpro]

Hello.
I just built a RGB panel from Led-strips and a DMX512 to SPI decoder. The panel is 11x9 pixels.
3 LEDs = 1 Pixel, 99 Pixels, 297 LEDS.
The "Add RGB Panel" button is really helpful and lets you choose in which corner the Led-strip begins, and if you are doing a Zigzag or snake orientation.
The only problem is that it assumes that the Led-strips are laid out horizontally, and i built mine vertically.

Is there an easy way or implement a option in the RGB panel button, so that the user can specify horizontally or vertically alignment?
I could just turn my panel sideways, but i built it this way so i want to use it this way

http://i.imgur.com/aEHAWSy.jpg

Video, using the original light controller:
http://imgur.com/VmwbPqK



My setup:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/171039485627? ... OC:US:3160
http://www.ebay.com/itm/181809475690
http://www.enttec.com/index.php?main_me ... s&pn=70303

[mcallegari]

Hi, have you tried to create the RGB panel setting "bottom-left" as corner of origin ?

[potetpro]

Yes, this creates a matrix from bottom-left to bottom-right, rising upwards like a snake.
........................
28-29-30-31-32-33-34-35-36
19-20-21-22-23-24-25-26-27
18-17-16-15-14-13-12-11-10
1- 2- 3- 4- 5- 6- 7- 8- 9


By my matrix starts in the bottom-left and rises straight up.

9-10-28-29
8-11-27-30
7-12-26-31
6-13-25-32
5-14-24-33
4-15-23-34
3-16-22-35.......
2-17-21-36..........
1-19-20-37.........

[mcallegari]

Ah ok, right.

Most of the RGB scripts though have an option to set the horizontal or vertical orientation.
What is your issue exactly ? (aside from the preview rotated by 90 degrees)

[potetpro]

Where are these RGB scripts located?
I have just tested using the "Add RGB panel" button next to the "Add fixture" botton, on the Fixtures tab.

Something like this is what i had in mind
Just an option for alignment.

[mcallegari]

So the issue is an option missing in the UI and you haven't even started to use the panel cause of that ?

Have you read this
http://www.qlcplus.org/docs/addrgbpanel.html
and this
http://www.qlcplus.org/docs/rgbmatrixeditor.html
?

Also, do you know that you can manually group pixels in the way you want ?
http://www.qlcplus.org/docs/fixturegroupeditor.html

[potetpro]

Yes, i have read all the manual pages, i know i can setup the RGB Panel manually.

The only thing i was missing was the horizontal/vertical option (tried to explain with a picture in last post), so the whole thing can be automatically generated by the software

I have also downloaded the source to see how difficult it would be to implement myself.

[janosvitok]

...how difficult it would be to implement myself.

1. https://github.com/mcallegari/qlcplus/b ... anel.h#L53 add enum Direction (since Orientation is taken)
2. https://github.com/mcallegari/qlcplus/b ... anel.h#L62 add Direction direction()
3. adjust https://github.com/mcallegari/qlcplus/b ... gbpanel.ui (as in your drawing)
4. https://github.com/mcallegari/qlcplus/b ... bpanel.cpp add implementations for 2.
5. adjust https://github.com/mcallegari/qlcplus/b ... .cpp#L1043
6. adjust https://github.com/mcallegari/qlcplus/b ... panel.html
7. adjust https://github.com/mcallegari/qlcplus/b ... /changelog

Step # 4 is the most complicated (most probably you can cheat by copying the whole for( ... rows) cycle). The rest you can
copy from similar neighbour code.

[potetpro]

Thanks

I just made it using the fixture group editor, gonna do some testing