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  • A Offline
    amanzimdwini @KirAsh4
    last edited by Jul 20, 2016, 3:55 AM

    @KirAsh4
    That was fast. Thanks. I’ll give it a whirl.

    Yes, I understand about all the caveats - I like the fading: that will make the jumping less obvious. But that problem already exists if you place the news-ticker at bottom_center, since it will vary between 2 and three lines. And I guess I could force the alternating modules to have the same width.

    BTW: thanks for teaching how to program modules. I love learning this way.

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    • K Offline
      KirAsh4 Moderator
      last edited by KirAsh4 Jul 20, 2016, 4:54 PM Jul 20, 2016, 5:02 AM

      The fading doesn’t make it less obvious. It happens because of the different sizes per module. Fade or not, you will see the other modules in the same region jump to adjust to the new sizing. Some days my calendar will have long entries, and it makes the clock above it move. So when I hide/show the calendar, the clock will jump back and forth. The regions being flexible is what allows for longer entries on the calendar to be seen, for example. Same with the news ticker as you’ve discovered. Having fixed regions can cause other problems as well.

      But, this should be a start for you. As I mentioned, it’s crude, and hard coded. I much rather have a function you can pass details to but I will leave that as an exercise for you. :)

      A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from?

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        KirAsh4 Moderator
        last edited by Jul 20, 2016, 8:16 PM

        By the way, this works best if the two modules you are trying to swap are right below each other in the 'config.js' file. For example, if you’re trying to swap ModA and ModB, your 'config.js' should list them together

        modules: [
        		{
        			module: 'ModA',
        		},
        		{
        			module: 'ModB',
        		},
        ],
        

        if you have a ModC in between them, it won’t ‘swap’ properly, it’ll just turn them off in alternate fashion while keeping them in their respective location. So you’ll end up with:

        startup
        ModA
        ModC
        ModB
        
        then
        ModC
        ModB
        
        then
        ModA
        ModC
        
        alternating ...
        

        Not particularly ideal …

        A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from?

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        • A Offline
          amanzimdwini @KirAsh4
          last edited by Jul 21, 2016, 8:54 PM

          @KirAsh4
          Thanks! I messed around a bit with it - here is what I came up with. (and yes, 99.999% is yours!)
          Still, here it is for anyone else who wants to play with it. But ALL credit goes to @KirAsh4

          This works best for me for MMM-Wunderground and MMM-Wunderlist - which I keep at top-right.
          a) my config.js extract:

                          {
                                  module: 'my_swap',      // as supplied by KirAsh4
                                  config: {
                                          showsecs: 30,   // seconds each module is shown (default =30)
                                                          // 30 is a "relaxed" speed
                                          fadems: 4000,   // fade time in ms (default = 4000)
                                                          //  4000 is also very relaxed - no coffee yet.
                                          modA: 'MMM-WunderGround',  // both modules need to be listed NEXT
                                          modB: 'MMM-Wunderlist'     // they should be of similar size, 
                                                                     // and in the same location.
                                                                     // These two are _prefect_ 
                                          }
                          },
                          {
                                  module: 'MMM-WunderGround',
                                  position: 'top_right',
                                  config: {
                                          apikey: '****',
                                          pws: '****',
                                          lang: 'EN',
                                          fctext: '1',
                                          fcdaycount: "5",
                                          fcdaystart: "0",
                                          hourly: '1',
                                          hourlyinterval: "3",
                                          hourlycount: "1",
                                          alerttime: 10000,
                                          alerttruncatestring: "english:",
                                          fade: true
                                  }
                          },
                          {
                                  module: 'MMM-Wunderlist',
                                  position: 'top_right', 
                                  config: {
                                          accessToken: '****',
                                          clientID: '****',
                                          lists: [
                                                  'MagicMirror'
                                                  ],
                                          interval: 60,
                                          fadePoint: 0.9,
                                          fade: true
                                          }
                          },
          

          Then the file my_swap.js ( in \modules\my_swap) needs to look like this:

          Module.register("my_swap",{
          
            // Default module config.
            defaults: {
                  modA: "MMM-NonExistA",  // if we dont know the EXACT NAME, we don't do anything!
                  modB: "MMM-NonExistB",  //    ="=
                  showsecs: 30,           //  as in compliments
                  fadems: 4000            //    ="=
            },
          
            // Define required scripts.
            getScripts: function() {
              return ["moment.js"];
            },
          
            start: function() {
              Log.log("Starting module: " + this.name);
              this.DOMloaded = 0;
              this.isHidden = 0;
          
              var self = this;
              setInterval(function() {
                self.swapModules();
              }, 1000);
            },
          
            notificationReceived: function(notification, payload, sender) {
              if (notification === 'DOM_OBJECTS_CREATED') {
                this.DOMloaded = 1;
              }
            },
          
            // swapModules.
            swapModules: function() {
          
              var now = moment();
              var self = this;
          
                  var mod1 = this.config.modA     // yank from config file
                  var mod2 = this.config.modB
                  var fadems = this.config.fadems
                  var showsecs = this.config.showsecs
          
              if (!(now.seconds() % showsecs)) { 
                if (this.DOMloaded) {
                  if (self.isHidden) {
                    MM.getModules().exceptModule(this).enumerate(function(module) {
                      if (module.name === mod1) {
                        module.hide(fadems, function() {
                          MM.getModules().exceptModule(this).enumerate(function(module) {
                            if (module.name === mod2) {
                              module.show(fadems, function() {
                              });
                            }
                          });
                        });
                      }
                    });
                    self.isHidden = 0;
                  } else {
                    MM.getModules().exceptModule(this).enumerate(function(module) {
                      if (module.name === mod2) {
                        module.hide(fadems, function() {
                          MM.getModules().exceptModule(this).enumerate(function(module) {
                            if (module.name === mod1) {
                              module.show(fadems, function() {
                              });
                            }
                          });
                        });
                      }
                    });
                    self.isHidden = 1;
                  }
                }
              }
            }
          });
          

          Works great for me! Thanks again for the clean code to play with. You should submit it as an official module.

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          • K Offline
            KirAsh4 Moderator
            last edited by Jul 21, 2016, 9:05 PM

            Yep, what you did is pretty much the idea. You figured it out and used your modules in the code. It needs to be rewritten a bit to allow for configurable module names. Possibly also allow more than just 2 modules to be swapped. There are some other things I can think of but it’s not something that’s at the top of the list for me. It is sitting in my dev repository, but it’ll be a bit before I focus on it. I’m glad what I wrote is helping you out though.

            A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from?

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              tobias789 @KirAsh4
              last edited by May 19, 2020, 7:21 AM

              @KirAsh4 Is it also possible to create alternating modules from the same type? In my case, I’m trying to alternate 2 calendar modules. Thank you very much for your answer.

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                niksadon @tobias789
                last edited by niksadon May 20, 2021, 2:21 PM May 20, 2021, 2:13 PM

                @tobias789 said in [Alternating Modules it to save on real estate](/post/75481):

                @KirAsh4 Is it also possible to create alternating modules from the same type? In my case, I’m trying to alternate 2 calendar modules. Thank you very much for your answer.

                Unfortunately, no. You can only alternate between the two modules, as prescribed in the manual.

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