rainbowmarquee

A background process that drives a scrolling message display on the Rainbowduino. The rainbowd process must be running. The message to display is passed in as the command's arguments.

Option	Description
‑f path	Specifies the path to the named pipe used for input to rainbowd. Defaults to /tmp/rainbowduino. Can also be specified with the environment variable RAINBOWD_PIPE.
‑c cols	Specifies the number of Rainbowduinos chained together.
‑s speed	Specifies the number of milliseconds per frame.
‑A code	Adds a character to the message string using its CP1252 code point.
‑F field base digit	Adds a field to the message string. See Fields. The value of the field is divided by (base^digit) and then displayed as a single ASCII character.
‑B color	Sets the background color of any following characters.
‑C color	Sets the foreground color of any following characters.
‑M weight	Sets the font weight of any following characters. A weight of 1 is normal; a weight of 2 is bold.
‑W width	Sets the advance width of any following characters; in other words, the number of pixels between the start of one character and the start of the next character.
‑T	Adds a number of spaces at the end of the message string equal to the number of Rainbowduinos chained together, allowing the end of the message to disappear before the beginning of the message reappears.