Pinnacle Speakers FXDEKO User Manual

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An object is a data structure created by a command. Typical objects in FXDeko
include colors, shaders, ellipses, rectangles, fonts and looks.

The elements of an object correspond exactly with the parameters of the
command that created it. Consider the rgb command, which creates a color:

rgb red= green= blue=

The parameters represent the amounts (from 0 to 100) of red, blue and green that
make up the color created by the rgb command.

You can assign an object to a variable:

$yellow = rgb 100 100 0

It is not necessary to assign objects to variables before passing them to other
commands. You can specify an object parameter with an embedded command,
indicated by parentheses:

ramp top_left=(rgb 100 100 0)

You can access any element of an object with the element operator (:), to edit the
element’s value or to assign it to a variable for use elsewhere.

To edit $yellow to make it a little less green:

$yellow:green = 80.

The green level of $yellow was 100. It is now 80.

To assign the green element of $yellow to the variable $grn:

$grn = $yellow:green

To determine the data type of an object, use the objtype command:.

objtype object=

You may encounter situations in which you must convert a value of one data
type to another data type. Use the following processes to convert various types
of data.

Add the integer to 0.0 or multiply it by 1.0.

$a = 123

$b = $a*1.0

$b equals 123.0

1.  Use the command: integer

2.  FXDeko truncates the real number. To round numbers accurately,

add .5 to the real number.

$a = 12.7