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Grogster Admin Group  Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9082 |
Hi folks.  The next part of the code I am writing, is to have a menu where you can enter in the name of a logfile, and it will read it and show it on the screen. LINE INPUT is made for this task, but that would mean standard TEXT commands for showing the lines from the logfile on the LCD, and two GUI buttons for page control(MORE and EXIT). The TEXT commands and GUI controls would NOT overlap on the screen, but I don't have enough GUI elements left to make up a whole screen list full of CAPTION commands to list the logfile details, so am planning to use TEXT instead. Just how much of a no-no is this in the grand scheme of things? If version 5.3 of the MM+ firmware will have more GUI elements available, then I could still code for this now ahead of time - which would be the preferred way to deal with it - but how far off is the release of 5.3 does anyone know? Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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| matherp Guru  Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 8605 |
I haven't found mixing a major issue. The only thing needed is to have a redraw function for the non-GUI elements that is called when you get the penup interrupt from text and number boxes or if needed on page changes. Note there is a bug in penup on 5.2 but this is fixed in the 5.3 beta released by Geoff |
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| Grogster Admin Group Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9082 |
OK, cool, thanks. I will proceed along the lines of text and a couple of GUI buttons for these screens only then. Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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| Phil23 Guru Joined: 27/03/2016 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1664 |
Just back on this, the element mixing. While I'd had no issues with my Tabbed Screens I did discover another trap. That code was running unchanged, unfinished on both 5.2 & 5.3 for ages. No display issues or corruption. Just worked fine. Then I broke it a bit. I decided I'd make the GUI LED's blink on coms rather than just toggle state. When I made the LED flash under the GUI, I started getting a bit of text corruption around them. Basically I think the GUI was sometimes repositioning the cursor co-ordinates mid way thru writing a TEXT string on odd occasions when the LED turned off. Returned them to the toggling code & it was fine again. Phil. |
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