displays:¶
Config file section
| Valid in machine config files | YES |
| Valid in mode config files | NO |
The displays: section of your config is where you configure the logical displays in your machine. A display is used
to show slides, and can be an on-screen window or a DMD.
You can have more than one display. For example, if you want to have a DMD and also display an on-screen window, you’ll
actually have two displays:, the DMD is one and the on-screen window is the other.
Here’s an example displays: section from Demo Man with two displays:
displays:
window:
height: 200
width: 600
dmd:
width: 128
height: 32
default: true
round_anchor_x: left
displays:
window:
height: 200
width: 600
dmd:
width: 128
height: 32
default: true
round_anchor_x: left
In the example above, one of the displays is called window and the other is called dmd. Note that the names here are
completely arbitrary. Just naming a display “window” does not make it show up in the window, and naming a display “dmd”
doesn’t make it show up in the DMD. (When you configure your window in the window: section of your config, you
specify the name of the display you want to be the source for the window content. Same for the DMD.)
The names of the displays are used as “targets” for your slides. So when you show a slide, you specify which display
you want it to show on. If you don’t specify a target, it will choose the default. If you only have one display, you
never have to worry about this because that display will always be the default. If you have more than one, you can add
the default: true to a display here to tell MPF which display is your default which is used when you play slides
without specifying a target.
Note
Starting in MPF v0.33, If you do not put a displays: section in your
machine config, MPF will automatically create a single display called
“default” with a size of 800x600. (This matches the default window size.)
Each display in your displays: section can have the following settings:
Optional settings¶
The following sections are optional in the displays: section of your config. (If you don’t include them, the default will be used).
default:¶
Single value, type: boolean (true/false). Default: false
Specifies that this display is the default, meaning it’s the display that’s used if you show a slide without specifying a target for that slide. If you only have one display, it will be the default automatically.
height:¶
Single value, type: integer. Default: 600
The height if the display, in pixels. Note that if you’re showing this display on the screen, you can scale the screen window which will scale the display. So the height here can be thought of as the “native” height of the display.
round_anchor_x:¶
Single value, type: string. Default: center
Indicates that this display should not render widgets on fractional horizontal pixels,
e.g. anchoring an 11px-wide widget at -5.5 pixels. When specified with left or right, this
display will round the pixel position to the nearest whole pixel in that direction.
This setting can also be configured on an individual widget to override the display’s configuration.
round_anchor_y:¶
Single value, type: string. Default: middle
Indicates that this display should not render widgets on fractional vertical pixels,
e.g. anchoring an 11px-high widget at -5.5 pixels. When specified with bottom or top, this
display will round the pixel position to the nearest whole pixel in that direction.
This setting can also be configured on an individual widget to override the display’s configuration.
console_log:¶
Single value, type: one of the following options: none, basic, full. Default: basic
Log level for the console log for this device.
debug:¶
Single value, type: boolean (true/false). Default: false
Set this to true to see additional debug output. This might impact the performance of MPF.
file_log:¶
Single value, type: one of the following options: none, basic, full. Default: basic
Log level for the file log for this device.