Backlight toggle

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Sorry if this is simple and answered elsewhere, I see cases like mine in the reference but don’t understand why it isn’t working. I want to toggle the backlights between off and functional strategy with a single hotkey.

My onInit:

setVar mylights false
set backlight.strategy constantRgb
set backlight.constantRgb.rgb 0 0 0

my ledtoggle macro:

if ($mylights) {
set backlight.constantRgb.rgb 0 0 0
set backlight.strategy constantRgb
}
else
{
set backlight.strategy functional
}
setVar mylights (!$mylights)

I have tried a couple other variations of this, with same results. I know the onInit is firing as my lights turn off when I save the config. The LED macro can then turn the functional mapping on, but never off. It kind of feels like each time it enters the macro, mylights is not initialized and always tests false?
Are variables supposed to be persistent between macros? feels silly if not.
Is there a way to directly test the value of my backlight.strategy? I tried a couple times but none worked and I don’t see a direct equivalent in the reference.

Thanks!

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Use:

if ($mylights) set backlight.constantRgb.rgb 0 0 0
else set backlight.strategy functional
setVar mylights (!$mylights)

The reason is newlines which act as delimiters. That else is basically an empty code block, and the next block is always executed. Correct version would be:

if ($mylights) {
set backlight.constantRgb.rgb 0 0 0
set backlight.strategy constantRgb
}
else {
set backlight.strategy functional
}
setVar mylights (!$mylights)
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That works perfectly. Thank you!

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