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seco61
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Posted: 10:59pm 12 May 2019

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Hi.

I have recently converted some programs to use the GUI based interface instead of the old style. It has certainly made the programs simpler and reduced the amount of code significantly (from around 93K to 67K).

This works fine on the larger displays, however I have a requirement to keep using 320x240 displays for some of the programs. I have an issue with the GUI NumberBox keypad on these displays. It does not quite fit vertically (the 240 pixel direction) and the bottom of the keypad is a little "distorted". Also, when closing the keypad I have remnants of it left on the screen in the area of the distortion at the bottom. And finally, the placement does not seem to quite work when it comes to positioning the keypad away from the field being edited. I have deliberately placed all my numberbox objects on the very right of the screen expecting the keypad to be drawn on the left. This is not always the case (positioning the keypad on the left or right of the screen seems somewhat arbitrary).

I am using a Micromite Plus LCD Backpack running v5.05.02.

Any chance that the keypad could be sized to fit into 160 x 240 pixels (or slightly smaller) when displayed on a 320x240 display?

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Gerard (vk3cg/vk3grs)

Geoffg

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Posted: 12:22pm 13 May 2019

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Good point. I must admit that I concentrated on the bigger 4.3" and larger displays when I was developing and testing the GUI controls.

I will add it to the list for the next version (BTW I doubt that the TEXTBOX keyboard would ever fit).

Geoff

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seco61
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Posted: 09:32pm 13 May 2019

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Thanks Geoff.

I agree the textbox display would be impractical, but the numberbox is very handy.

If the update makes it into one of the beta releases I will give it a good test!

Regards

Gerard (vk3cg/vk3grs)

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