I'm currently working on a nice flashlight tool for the Pandora. I want the tool to adjust the backlight brightness depending on the brightness of the color to be shown: I want the user to be able to smoothly dim a light from #FFFFFF at brightness 54 all the way down to #000000 at brightness 0.
The tool will also have stroboscope and color cycling modes: would it be a good idea to actually switch off the backlight (set its brightness to 0) when the stroboscope goes black (currently I just set the color to black, but that is not quite the same thing, esp at high brightness)? Or would rapidly switching the backlight on and off be a bad idea - will it break the backlight at some point? And how much time does the backlight need to power up or down (i.e., how many Hz can a stroboscope implemented in this way do) ?
The tool will also have stroboscope and color cycling modes: would it be a good idea to actually switch off the backlight (set its brightness to 0) when the stroboscope goes black (currently I just set the color to black, but that is not quite the same thing, esp at high brightness)? Or would rapidly switching the backlight on and off be a bad idea - will it break the backlight at some point? And how much time does the backlight need to power up or down (i.e., how many Hz can a stroboscope implemented in this way do) ?