madpatrick wrote:Hi,
I've turned on today the rotating on, to option 2. Great feature !!
how does it work exactly.
Hi,
this is how it works:
During startup, when the tiles are populated I build an array with the currently active tiles except the top 2 on the first homescreen (considered as fixed).
This array is not maintained during normal operations when you add/change/replace/delete tiles.
Therefor the rotate function will continue to show only the tiles which were active during boot.
The empty tile you see could be for instance the waste collection tile on a day without waste collection.
You currently cannot freely select which tiles to show and which not.
The rotate function is actually changing the setup of the bottom tiles as if you were changing the tiles manually.
It also means that at next boot you see this last setup again and it will be used at base for the next rotation.
To prevent this from happening you should stop rotation, make the tiles look like you want it and then restart the gui.
To have the best control over your display you should select the option 3 - rotate all tiles (= simply flip the homescreens as they are, like you select the next page).
Disadvantage:
- you have to put the clock for instance on each homepage to be visible all the time
Advantage:
- your tile setup isn't changed and is resilient against reboots.
- using almost no extra resources as rotating it is only navigating to the next page rather than changing tile contents.
- gives more flexibility to show some tiles more often than others.
Hope this helps.
Toonz