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carousel_item_highlighted

This is an MPF Event

The content on this page is technical documentation for an MPF Event.

An item was highlighted in a carousel. This event is posted when the carousel initially displays and highlights its initial item and also when moving the carousel to the next or previous item.

Keyword arguments

(See the Conditional Events guide for details for how to create entries in your config file that only respond to certain combinations of the arguments below.)

The name of the carousel that had an item selected.

direction:

The direction that the highlight change was performed in. Can be any of:

"forwards", "backwards", or None. Note that None is the Python keyword, not the string "None".

item:

The string name of the newly-highlighted item.

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