HUD or free display zone for javascript

[mixxxbot]

Reported by: DJChloe
Date: 2015-10-13T18:08:21Z
Status: Confirmed
Importance: Wishlist
Launchpad Issue: lp1505766
Tags: controllers

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Mixxx 1.12

It would be very usefull to have, for midi scripting, a zone of text available in the skins in order to display messages.
Those messages can be some particular status information not avilable in skins (like the current loop length selected by a knob, when the loop is disabled, a status like the loop mode (normal or roll), etc...) or even greeting message,etc...

[mixxxbot]

Commented by: daschuer
Date: 2015-10-13T18:25:25Z

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Good idea.
A set of script definable Skin buttons would be also nice.

[mixxxbot]

Commented by: DJChloe
Date: 2015-10-13T19:15:03Z

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"A set of script definable Skin buttons would be also nice."

Oh yes !

In fact, it is like custmizing a skin for some specific controller mapping features.

[mixxxbot]

Commented by: Be-ing
Date: 2015-10-17T07:12:50Z

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I was tempted to suggest a similar feature when I was mapping my Electrix Tweaker, but I realized that it would be a better idea to add the feature I wanted to implement into Mixxx for everyone to use with any hardware. I think if this scripted display was implemented, mappers would use it for quick hacks to implement features rather than adding to Mixxx.

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Commented by: Be-ing
Date: 2017-05-26T04:54:15Z

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I think the use cases for this have been taken care of by #1187 (Bug #⁠1429331).

[ronso0]

Closing this since these features are now mostly implemented (Mixxx 2.4-beta).
Feel free to reopen if there's someting missing.