Audio Visualizer

From KickApps Documentation

The Audio Visualizer component gives a visual display of the acoustic properties of the audio track playing in an audio player. It represents the intensity of each frequency across 256 channels.

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Properties

Spectrum Colors: Choose colors to represent left and right stereo.

Background & Border

The scrubber component is used in conjunction with the video and audio players to change positions in the video or audio track that's currently playing.

Properties

Layout
- Horizontal
- Vertical
Handle Dimensions
- Width
- Height

Background & Border

The play progress bar, load progress bar, handle, and background elements of the scrubber can all be styled individually, with the following options:

Icon URL: Enter the URL to an image file in .jpg, .gif, or .png format, or click Browse to open the App Studio Assets window. You can select an image from your App Studio Assets by double-clicking on its icon, or upload a new image by clicking Add. Your selected image will be centered horizontally and vertically within the selected component.

Layout

There are two types of containers: the widget canvas itself (background of the entire widget) is considered a container, and you can also create containers that enclose components within your widget. Like any standard component, containers that you create can be moved around the stage, resized, and styled. The most powerful feature of Containers, though, is their ability to fix the positions of their constituent components via layout constraints, which we'll cover below. To create a container, select multiple components, right-click, and select "Group in new container".

You can configure a container's background color, opacity, border color, border thickness, corner radius, and background image in its Properties panel:

You can also mask content in a container by selecting the Mask Content checkbox at the bottom of the panel above. With masking enabled, components that belong to the container but fall outside its bounds will be hidden. To indicate this, when you're editing a container that has masking enabled in Design mode, and then add a component outside the bounds of the container you're in, that component will be translucent:

Masking is useful for situations in which you want to animate a component into a container after it loads initially.

Layout Constraints

Layout constraints let you anchor components a certain distance away from the sides and axes of their containers. Components with layout constraints enabled maintain their offset distances when their containers are resized. To set layout constraints, double click on your container, then single click on a component within it. The Layout Constraints panel will appear:

The checkboxes along the top side of the square in the Layout Constraints panel can be used to anchor the selected component to the left, vertical center, and right sides of its container. The checkboxes along the left side of the square can be used to anchor the selected component to the top, horizontal center, and bottom sides of its container.

When you select a checkbox, a text input field appears across the box from it. The number in this field represents the offset distance, in pixels, from the selected side of the container. For example, this is what it looks like when you anchor to the left side:

If you then resize this container, the component maintains its distance from the left side:

Similarly, you can anchor a component to the top of its container, and it will maintain its distance from the top when its container is resized:

You can also anchor components to the horizontal and vertical center lines of their containers. This component is anchored to the horizontal center of its container. It maintains its distance from the horizontal center when its container is resized.

This component is anchored to the vertical center of its container. It maintains its distance from the vertical center when its container is resized.

Components anchored to opposite sides of their containers expand and contract to maintain their offsets. Below is a component anchored to both the left and right sides of its container. Note how it expands to maintain its distances from the left and right sides.

The component below is anchored to both the top and bottom sides of its container. It contracts when its container is resized.

Events

Standard Events

Click
Component hidden
Component loaded
Component shown
Double click
Mouse down
Mouse up
Roll out
Roll over

Actions

Standard Actions

Drag/Stop Drag
Set depth
Show/Hide
Tween Blur
Tween Color
Tween Drop Shadow
Tween Glow
Tween Property
Update Property
- For a listing of all properties on KickApps components, see our Properties Reference.

Layout

There are two types of containers: the widget canvas itself (background of the entire widget) is considered a container, and you can also create containers that enclose components within your widget. Like any standard component, containers that you create can be moved around the stage, resized, and styled. The most powerful feature of Containers, though, is their ability to fix the positions of their constituent components via layout constraints, which we'll cover below. To create a container, select multiple components, right-click, and select "Group in new container".

You can configure a container's background color, opacity, border color, border thickness, corner radius, and background image in its Properties panel:

You can also mask content in a container by selecting the Mask Content checkbox at the bottom of the panel above. With masking enabled, components that belong to the container but fall outside its bounds will be hidden. To indicate this, when you're editing a container that has masking enabled in Design mode, and then add a component outside the bounds of the container you're in, that component will be translucent:

Masking is useful for situations in which you want to animate a component into a container after it loads initially.