LCD Smartie

Hi,
At first, I?m from Germany and my English is not the best but i?ll give it a try

I?m searching a Backlight-Time-Control Plugin. A small Command in a line of a Screen, that define a amount of time in that the Background-light fades to an minimum/maximum value.

for Example: Winamp... It starts playing. Then, after e.g. 5sec the Backround fades out to the seted minimum value. The speed can set by an other value (seconds)
The command Could look like this:

$dll(btc.dll,0,5,3,12)

btc.dll - backlight-time-control
0 - 1/0 (fade in / fade out)
5 - begin after 10sec
3 - timescale (after 3sec it reached the min/max Value)
12 - % minimum/maximum brightness (depending on the 1. Value)

I do not know if it is possible at all, but when, anyone can give it a try

I would develop it by myself but i?m not able to do this because it exceeds my skills

Thx Fr33man

As far as I know, this cannot be done (somebody please tell me it can!). It would certainly look cool - backlight brightness ramps up to indicate some kind of activity like starting playback or change of track. Then it fades smoothly back to the original brightness after a few seconds.

I don't think there is any way to control the backlight brightness in Smartie other than with the display settings in the config window. Normal plugins don't have any way to control backlight brightness, only the display drivers do. I think this would have to be built into Smartie in a new release.

You might be able to simulate brightness on an LED backlight by toggling it on and off quickly. I'm not sure how you'd implement it, but theoretically it should work...

can you use a pwm signal through the parallel port to simulate brightness