Will LED_COUNT be 0 or ROWS*COLS for non-LED keyboards?

Programming
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Will LED_COUNT be 0 or ROWS*COLS for non-LED keyboards? I ask because I’m writing some code where I need to divide by it. Thanks!

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It will be 0 for non-led boards.

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OK then I guess for (int i=0; i < LED_COUNT; ++i will immediately fail.

A related question, is it guaranteed to be equal to ROWS*COLS for keyboards with LEDs?

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Yeah, that should work. A few plugins are using similar constructs.

For now, yes, because the only board with per-key LEDs Kaleidoscope supports is the Model01, which has the same amount of LEDs as ROWS*COLS. This is not necessarily true for other boards: the Dygma Raise has fewer LEDs (because there are unused parts of the matrix), and so does the ErgoDox EZ Glow.

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I notice some recent code:

  if (!Kaleidoscope.has_leds)
    return;

If I use this I can confidently divide by LED_COUNT in subsequent code? Kaleidoscope.has_leds is guaranteed to be equal to LED_COUNT != 0?

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static constexpr bool has_leds = (KeyboardHardware.led_count > 0);

So yes, if you use if (!Kaleidoscope.has_leds) return;, you can be sure that anything past that will see LED_COUNT being higher than zero.