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panky

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Posted: 02:24am 17 Jun 2018

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In playing with GUI displays, I needed to have a series of blocks with predefined text to act as menu select boxes. I achieved this by using DISPLAYBOX then overlaying the same screen region with an AREA command and using the touch generated by the AREA command to do the menu selection.

While this works, it means I am using up 2 CTRLs for every menu box. Would it be possible to consider making the DISPLAYBOX touchable in the same way the AREA box is touchable?

Would anyone else find this usefull?

panky

... almost all of the Maximites, the MicromMites, the MM Extremes, the ArmMites, the PicoMite and loving it!

lew247

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Posted: 07:14am 17 Jun 2018

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I did the same with a couple of projects I was playing with
Yes I'd find it useful
But I suspect there's a reason Geoff hasn't done this already

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Posted: 10:11am 17 Jun 2018

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It should be doable and sounds useful as well. I will add it to the list for possible inclusion in the next version.

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Posted: 10:24pm 17 Jun 2018

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I've done a similar thing in the Tabbed displays I played with a while back.

I used the GUI SWITCH to create the 4 Tabs, or buttons at the top of the screen.

Quote 'Heading Buttons - Page 9 is Switches across the top.
GUI SETUP 9
GUI Switch SwT1, "Home Page", MM.HRes/4*0,0,MM.HRes/4-2,TabHgt, RGB(Cyan),RGB(Gray)
CtrlVal(SwT1)=0
GUI Switch SwT2, "2nd Page",MM.HRes/4*1,0,MM.HRes/4-2,TabHgt, RGB(White)
CtrlVal(SwT2)=1
GUI Switch SwT3, "3rd Page",MM.HRes/4*2,0,MM.HRes/4-2,TabHgt, RGB(White)
CtrlVal(SwT3)=1
GUI Switch SwT4, "Full Detail",MM.HRes/4*3,0,MM.HRes/4-2,TabHgt, RGB(White)
CtrlVal(SwT4)=1

Most of the details are in this thread, but not sure the full code is the latest, as I haven't touched it for over a year.

Phil.

Edit, it's the 4 buttons along the top as seen here.

Edited by Phil23 2018-06-19

Phil23
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Posted: 10:42pm 17 Jun 2018

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Geoffg said It should be doable and sounds useful as well.

Don't know what is & isn't doable at your end, but maybe enhancements could be to GUI SWITCH.

One that come to mind, not considering if they would be useful or not are:

Round corners.
Latching or Momentary option.
Option for different colour when latched.
And option to changing the display text.

So this line of code for example,

Quote GUI Switch sw_pmp, "On|Off", 20, 90, 150, 50, RGB(white),RGB(Brown)
CtrlVal(sw_pmp) = 1
' the flow rate display box

Could just display the word on against a green button, and Off against a red button when it's value is changed.

Cheers

Phil.

Edit:- Should have said a variation on the line of code above that specifies different options.
Edited by Phil23 2018-06-19

Bizzie
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Posted: 11:08pm 17 Jun 2018

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I agree with Phil.

All Phil's enhancements would be good.

Cheers

Rob

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