MMM-Carousel Pagination Icons

BerkSmash1984

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.

com1cedric

Dear @sdetweil , hoping your going well, may I ask you something about the comment you put on this page?
-> see this for how to locate the items to set new custom.css entries for https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/14862/help-with-a-couple-css-issues/2?_=1719951675453

I do not find where the https://fontawesome.com is referenced to search for the icones.

has it been erased or could you explain me?

Wishing you a relaxing and sunny week-end,

Cédric

sdetweil

@com1cedric search is under the multi bar icon top
left ( often called the hamburger icon, two buns and patties between)

com1cedric

@sdetweil hum… I have to re-explain my question:

fo the moment, in custom.css, the word “hockey” is used for a page using MMM-page-indicator like this:

.MMM-page-indicator div i:nth-child(5)::after {
content: “Hockey”;
}

Let’s say, I want to replace this word “hockey”, with an image of a hockey-puck --> e.g. image “F453” on https://fontawesome.com/search?q=hockey&o=r

Shoud I “just” write instead in custom.css:

.MMM-page-indicator div.module-content div i:nth-child(2)::before {
    content: "\f453";
    font-family: FontAwesome;
}

When I try that, the word “hockey” has disappeared, but not image of a puck is shownd. I should have missed a step…

Can you help me? (could interest other user as well I hope). Thanks in advance!

sdetweil

@com1cedric is the puck in the free section of icons?

sdetweil

@com1cedric i am traveling and dont have my computer out currently, maybe after lunch time.

can you look in the developers window console tab and see if there are any errors

sdetweil

@com1cedric also, is this the 1st or second icon you are trying to change?

com1cedric

@sdetweil hello, and thank you for your time. It helped me a lot, as it is finally working now…

I had to change “before” with “after” after the ::

.MMM-page-indicator div.module-content div i:nth-child(2)::AFTER {
content: “\f453”;
font-family: FontAwesome;
}

So, thank you very much for your help and have a great week-end.

mumblebaj

@com1cedric I have submitted a PR for MMM-page-indicator which should give more flexibility per page. See example below:

.MMM-page-indicator .fa.indicator.page-2::before {
    content:"\f005";
    color: orange !important;
}

.MMM-page-indicator .indicator.active-page {
   animation: pulse 1.2s ease-in-out infinite;
}

If PR is accepted you should be able to target specific page indicators as shown in example above from custom.css.

You could use this fork in the meanwhile:
MMM-page-indicator

sdetweil

@mumblebaj you know there has to be one of the icon entries for every page the user defined, right?

mumblebaj

@sdetweil Not sure if I understand you properly but the other pages would default to the standard circle. The changes I made allows you to target specific pages if you want to change the icon, add animations etc. A little easier to target individuals.

sdetweil

@mumblebaj ah, what you meant to say is

.fa.indicator.page-n

where n is a number for each page found, starting at 0

page-0 for first page
page-1 for second page
etc

mumblebaj

@sdetweil Correct. Although, MMM-page-indicator is 0 based, same as MMM-pages, so page-0 would be page 1 etc.

sdetweil

@mumblebaj i updated my post