Pause/resume visual feedback and button position

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I'm rewritting some cust apps and would love to know how in groovy one can make the app's name return the little red "paused" feedback.

Also, I would like to know which parameters allows to define a button's position inside the preferences.

Thanks in advance for your help!

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This app has the easiest way to to it that I've been able to find. I used similar code in some custom apps that I wrote for myself.

The method used is quite simple. A separate method is called in the pageConfig method. In this app it is called "pauseOrNot".

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Thank you @Ryan780. However, the link is dead...

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Never mind, it's my browser not interpreting the %%2520 as a space. I went directly to the repository instead
Thanks again, I'll now look into it

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No, it's a discourse bug...

https://github.com/Botched1/Hubitat/blob/master/Apps/Dimmer%20Sync/Dimmer%20Sync%20Child.groovy

The methods you're looking for are in the Dimmer Sync Child app, just so you don't have to search for them.

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https://github.com/Botched1/Hubitat/tree/master/Apps/Dimmer Sync

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The 'pauseOrNot' code I originally wrote is not always as reliable as I had hoped.
Just an FYI, it sometimes leaves a (paused) addition to the app.name (not in red)

Never really did get to the bottom of why it sometimes does that as I do it differently now.

Andy

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There are no 'parameters' as such
But... you should be able to position it with standard html

Andy

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Thanks. The issue is that I don't know how to implement some html code within the object "button" so to trigger the btn event. I can create any button in html, of course, but how do I fuse this with HE's groovy "button" type so to trigger, for example, the pause action?

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You beat me to the punch. :slight_smile:

I think I directly used your pause code (as credited in the app, but I probably could have been more explicit on which parts of the code are attributed to whom - instead of a general credit). I also noticed that in some scenarios I could get a leftover (paused). Didn't happen often, so I didn't bother to try and fix it.

That was actually the 1st groovy app I wrote in HE. As always, your and Brian's utility/layout examples were monumentally helpful.

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On second thought, there has to be a way within groovy directly to place the button since it is done in RM: Update button, for example, is always to the right end of the page, while "run actions" is to the left...

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Have a look at this post to see how the button is coded..

Andy

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Thank you. I have read this entire thread already. The issue is not that I don't know how to code the button nor its corresponding evt handler. The issue is that I don't know how to format, position and maybe even resize the button just like I would do in HTML or CSS. I know it's possible since RM does it.

Maybe @bravenel or @mike.maxwell can come save me again from the daemons of my ignorance? :slight_smile:

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You should play around with

, width: 4

for an input or paragraph. The total width of a computer size page is 12. You have to manage the widths of things to add up to 12.

paragraph " ", width: 6

would space over half a screen. Follow with

input myButton, "button", title: "My Button", width: 6

would put a button on that right half..... etc. Play with it to figure out it out.

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ooooh! That thing I didn't even dare to try for I would again be accused of barbaric coding! Just kidding. True, though, that I thought of playing with spaces " " using paragraph... But since I read saw that html was somewhat accepted, I was stubbornly betting on an html solution!

Thank you so much @bravenel!

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while(app.label.contains(" (Paused) "))        {app.updateLabel(app.label.minus("(Paused)" ))}
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Actually I code it complete differently now so that it never does that :crazy_face:
I also have a proper button rather than than a switch on my revised apps

Andy