Touchscreen: Create interface for scheduling timelines, etc.

Hi there,

I have basic ETC Mosaic touchscreen experience such as using buttons to instantly trigger timelines or set various parameters. Now I want to use the touchscreen to allow the client to schedule a set of event specific timelines, e.g. there are a couple of event timelines I trigger from a lua script that randomly picks from 3 timelines, e.g. timeline "birthday 1", timeline "birthday 2", and timeline "birthday 3".

How can create an interface to allow the client to pick a future start and end date which then triggers a specific lua script or any event for that matter?

Slider won't work (percent or 8 bit only).
Thought I could probably use 3 keypads on the interface page, one for day, month, and year but it seems quite clumsy.
Maybe creating several buttons for "year" (e.g. 10 buttons starting with 2026), "month" (12 buttons), and "day" (31 buttons) for each event and reading out their states from triggers. A bit clumsy as well...

Are there any specific manuals or templates for this kind of interactive scheduling interface?

Thank you for your help in advance!

Erwin

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jabadger 2 hours ago +1

You can use sliders. I have a module that sets the internal time based on slider positions - here's an example of converting the slider inputs into something usable instance:action("Get Time Slider").handler…

jabadger 2 hours ago

You can use sliders. I have a module that sets the internal time based on slider positions - here's an example of converting the slider inputs into something usable

instance:action("Get Time Slider").handler = function(properties, variables)
    local watch = properties["Watch Slider"]
    
    if watch == "hour" then
       local slider = variables[1].integer
       set_hour = math.floor(slider/11.0869565217)
       controller.set_control_caption(hslider, "Hour: "..set_hour)
    elseif watch == "min" then
       local slider = variables[1].integer
       set_min = math.floor(slider/4.32203389831)
       controller.set_control_caption(mslider, "Min: "..set_min)
    elseif watch == "month" then
       local slider = variables[1].integer
       set_month = math.floor(slider/23.1818181818 + 1)
       controller.set_control_caption(mnslider, "Month: "..set_month)
    elseif watch == "day" then
       local slider = variables[1].integer
       set_day = math.floor(slider/8.5 + 1)
       controller.set_control_caption(dslider, "Day: "..set_day)
    elseif watch == "year" then
       local slider = variables[1].integer
       set_year = math.floor(slider/5.1 + 2020)
       controller.set_control_caption(yslider, "Year: "..set_year)
       end
end