MMM-Carousel Pagination Icons

sdetweil

@doriangrey no… we worked out how to do it in css…
for example
one entry like this for each page indicator (nth-child(x) to select the correct thing to override)

.MMM-page-indicator div.module-content div i:nth-child(2)::before {
    content: "\f055";  // <-- icon code goes here
    font-family: FontAwesome;
}

doriangrey

@sdetweil said in MMM-Carousel Pagination Icons:

nth-child

Nice work.

sdetweil

@doriangrey yeh, css tricky stuff. there is ALWAYS a way

BerkSmash1984

@sdetweil @doriangrey

Just to show what the final edits look like in my custom.css and how that looks on my mirror, for the good of the group:

The content entries are the unicodes for the respective icons found on Font Awesome’s website (https://fontawesome.com).

For example, F073 in the first entry (for nth-child(1)) is for a calendar-days Font Awesome icon:

You can see this icon, and all others used on my MagicMirror display to change pages, in the red box of the screenshot below:

Thank you @sdetweil for your help, as always!

I hope this helps others looking to accomplish the same thing!

sdetweil

@BerkSmash1984 and he only has that many entries because he has that many pages defined

BerkSmash1984

@sdetweil Yup!

That is correct, I have 10 unique pages on my MM display. Happy to share more info of my config if anyone needs it.

I did share a lot of info on my display (some small things have changed since then) in my post below:

https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/18513/my-magic-mirror-desk-display?_=1721136289198

Philip 0

Hello ,
By making a small modification, I colored each icon with a different color.

Line 588 of MMM-carousel.js, I removed the Style.

label.innerHTML = “<i class='”+Object.values(this.config.icons)[i]+“>”;

I copied it into each icon line of config.js.

icons: {
1: “fa-solid fa-sun’ style=‘color: #ffff00;’”,
2: “fa-solid fa-house-flood-water’ style=‘color: #718fea;’”,
3: “fa-solid fa-triangle-exclamation’ style=‘color: #0099ff;’”,
4: “fa-solid fa-gas-pump’ style=‘color: #ff0000;’”,
5: “fa-solid fa-calendar-days’ style=‘color: #ffcc00;’”,
6: “fa-solid fa-person-walking-luggage’ style=‘color: #00cccc;’”,
7: “fa-brands fa-spotify’ style=‘color: #009933;’”,
8: “fa-solid fa-person-hiking’ style=‘color: #ffffff;’”,
9: “fa-solid fa-video’ style=‘color: #cc00ff;’”,
10: “fa-brands fa-raspberry-pi’ style=‘color: #ff0000;’”,
11: “fa-solid fa-umbrella’ style=‘color: #999999;’”,
12: “fa-solid fa-image-portrait’ style=‘color: #ff6600;’”
},

sdetweil

@Philip-0 you could do the same in css.

J2FK

Hi,
I also use pages and page indicator with 7 pages and have successfully replaced the circles with colored icons as described above, thank you for that!!

Is there a way to highlight the icons or make them a little bigger, like with the hollow and solid circles, so you can see which page you are on?

thx

sdetweil

@J2FK yes, somehow wit CSS… maybe they change styles when selected…

use the developers window (see second slink in my signature below)

looking in the dev window when active each icon gets the class

indicator

applied

the default style is (in MMM-page-indicator.css)

.MMM-page-indicator .indicator {
    padding: 0 5px;
    margin: 0;
    font-size: 0.5em;
 }

so you would put this in css/custom.css and change it as you want/need

I tried fiddling with this , but the override for the icon is causing trouble.