Go

Creating an AnimationSender

An AnimationSender struct contains an ip field (type string) and a port field (type int).

sender := AnimationSender{}
sender.ip = "10.0.0.254"
sender.port = 5

// or

sender := AnimationSender{
	ip:         "10.0.0.254",
	port:       5,
}

Starting the AnimationSender

An AnimationSender is started by calling the Start() method on the instance.

sender.Start()

Stopping the AnimationSender

To stop the AnimationSender, call its End() method.

sender.End()

Sending Data

An animation can be sent to the server by creating an instance of the AnimationData struct, then calling SendAnimation with the struct as the argument.

cc := ColorContainer{}
cc.AddColor(0xFF)
cc.AddColor(0xFF00)

data := AnimationData()        // Note that this is a function call 
                               // that returns an animationData struct pointer
data.AddColor(&cc)

sender.SendAnimation(data)

AnimationData type notes

The Go library uses the following values for animation, continuous and direction:

• animation: COLOR, ALTERNATE, RIPPLE, etc.
• continuous: DEFAULT, CONTINUOUS, NONCONTINUOUS
• direction: FORWARD, BACKWARD

Receiving Data

Received animations are saved to RunningAnimations, which is a RunningAnimationMap (which is a thread-safe map).

To retrieve an animation, use

sender.RunningAnimations.Load(ID)

where ID is the string ID of the animation.

To get a list of all animation IDs, use

ids := sender.RunningAnimations.Keys()