Vote request: Textsel widget for devo10

Well, this will not be a vote, I just want to share my opinion:

I think those fonts (and the fields, menu items and all that depends on the fonts) are still too large for such a display.
I know, that they cannot be much smaller to support the traditional chinese, but then if they have to be that large, you should optimize the display and the widgets to spare more room.

For example showing boxed text is a bit of luxury. You will invert the selected widget anyway, so it will be boxed, but that inverted area only have to be one pixel wider on each side, while a simple box needs at least two pixels space for each side.
But if there are no boxes, how you can sign, that it is a value or a button, you could ask...
Well, for the values there are the < > signs, like the curve funtion value on your screen.
The buttons are harder, but I think a square bracket would do: [ Save ]

It might not be so fancy, but you would have more space for other controls, and it would need even less drawing, as they could be displayed as text...

I do not have a DEVO 10, so don't take my word too seriously, and I see Walkera is doing the same:


...but I think the er9x display (which has about the same resolution) is more practical:



It has 8 rows, but of course it doesn't support other languages...

You are right that they support more rows, but not having full unicode support is a show-stopper for me. I really like that Deviation has been ported to so many languages, and I don't want to hinder that.
There may be screens where we can use 8-px fonts (for instance where the screen is mostly filled with numerical data), but generally we need to be able to handle the 'full' unicode character set wherever we do today with the Devo8 (and in a few places we don't yet)

I like your 2nd round spinbox with the slight space around the '<', and '>'. and while I agree it would be nicer to get more info on the screen, I don't really see any way to do that right now, and your solution of using a scrollbar is a good one.

OK, I'm sold.

That's really nice, I just worry about displaying some more complex forms, like the complex mixer itself.
For the list like forms (like this picture), it is perfect.

The problem with the complex mixer is that it contains more pages, so you have to page throw them, when you are searching for a setting.
However if you don't see all the settings of a page at once, then you have to scroll down too on all pages...

I must admit, that I do not know any better solution!


BTW, about your sample:
Would it be possible to move the revert button a pixel higher, and all the contents under the line a pixel lower, to not contact the separating line?
There is room for that, and it would be nicer...