Devo 10/7E small UI (updated 1st post)

Current status:
- tested by me and some others.
- in the nightlies.

Please visit this thread for configuration reference:
www.deviationtx.com/forum/custom-skins/2...devo-7e-10-reference

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All the code can be found here:
bitbucket.org/sbstnp/dev-flex-ui

config.inis are in the repo named:

config-small.ini
config-large.ini

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updated above

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This post has a zip with 2 config.ini files, one is default big 12normal font, the other is small UI with 04b03 font.

Original post below:

Just something I've been working on for a while. This is the second go at it my 1st was lost in a HDD crash and put on hold for about 6 months.

I have it mostly working but I'm still hunting pixel level inaccuracies and it's going slowly since I can only work on it late at night when I'm usually very tired.

Indeed, number of items is hard coded and there is a plethora of small pixel misalignments when sizing down most GUI elements and re-writing some parts of different pages to account for the increased number of elements.

I intend to go the whole mile and then if it looks all right maybe we can make it an option for latin alphabets. I haven't checked accented chars yet so I'm not sure they will work with that particular font, but modding the font should be the easy part. English looks perfect so far, so for it's worth the effort.

It is great - much more usable than only four lines.
sbstnp, do you use a smaller font or do you recalculate an existing font? With the first we could try to calculate how much lines are possible on the screen and adopt scroll areas and line spacing. I have done similar (for only a few pages) when I optimized them for the 480x272-screen.

It's the font called 04b03 already present in the filesystem (I think PB introduced it?). I have another one, somewhote similar but I'm not sure of the licensing yet.

Anyway, since this UI will be limited to latin languages creating and tuning a font isn't a big deal, I've done it before.

The current UI is partly aware of how many lines are fitting at the same time (e.g. menus) but there are a lot of places needing rewriting. I also had to affect some UI elements like labels and buttons in order to better center text on different states (selected, unselected).

I'll keep at it

rbe2012 wrote: It is great - much more usable than only four lines.
sbstnp, do you use a smaller font or do you recalculate an existing font? With the first we could try to calculate how much lines are possible on the screen and adopt scroll areas and line spacing. I have done similar (for only a few pages) when I optimized them for the 480x272-screen.

PhracturedBlue wrote: If you check in your code and push it to bitbucket often, you won't lose it like that

Bad luck is bad luck, happened while on a business trip with no internet access (actually very expensive internet access). Now I carry an external backup drive with me

If this makes it into the new release, and I hope it does, I will need to redo all the screenshots. I can use the current ones as placeholders. Want to make sure the documentation is as current as possible.

I tried changing all the fonts in config.ini to 04b03 and that did not accomplish the desired results so I am glad someone is looking at the code to make this a reality.

Aa PB just said this won't make into a release very soon. I intend to have sources and dev builds publicly available before year's end though, so everyone can play with the emulator at least (high chances of reboots on the TX itself if I screw something up, which is almost a certainty at this stage).

My first goal is to have all the UI supporting 8 lines and be revertable to 5 lines with no ill effects. This could be toggled by a setting in config.ini.

Second goal is to have custom fonts and user controllable sizes. This will be both harder and more dangerous and I haven't given this too much thought yet.

sbstnp,

I would be very interested in helping you test this. I have already been jealous of the Devo8/12 owners with all that info on their screens. I even duplicated some of the more information specific screens.



I could just imagine what I might be able to display with more lines available. and smaller toggles too! Notice that I am not using a model.icon, If I can't tell what kind of aircraft I am flying without looking at it directly I have more problems than just my setup and display screen.

As soon as I have a good enough code base I'll publish both source and a build. Stay tuned, any help is welcomed! Another week till vacation

Ok so I got a little time to work on this some more.

I started with a new fork and pushed most of the changes here:
bitbucket.org/sbstnp/deviation-bw-small-ui

I'm still experimenting with ways of tweaking the UI widgets and keep the existing code as much as possible so far. Unfortunately there are many many assumptions about font sizes and how things are placed on the screen and spacing.

Some more pix, buttons are now underlines when not selected (not definitive but looks cleaner) and I changed some labels (won't happen if I'm to keep compatibility with 12 pixel fonts, but it looks nice):

Love it. Would be good on the Devo10 too. My I make a suggestion about the buttons (just not feeling the underline). Is there a significant visual difference between <> and (), if so perhaps the buttons could beas in the image above rather than Calibrate

Big problem when the button will be inside <>, it wiil look kinda weird, like <( Load..)>. Actually weider on a small font. Will put pix up in 5.

Edit: pic.
Not liking this. But I have another idea, stay tuned.

this is looking good, though is there any reason to have the parts that cant be scrolled through left and right inside brackets at all? so have those that can be scrolled through inside < > and those that cant not inside brackets at all?

It sounded good in my head, but seeing the <(Button)> combination doesn't appeal to me either.

One thing I saw above and really like was the TX Battery and TX Power on the same line at the top. Can it be placed in any position with your mods? I never liked that the Power was below the battery on the Deviation screen and you cannot move it.

Secondly, are you also minimizing the toggles, I tried it on the standard file system. I redid the togglex.bmp smaller but had to keep the original .bmp size. While I could get smaller ones to display, the space allotted them on screen was still too big and you cannot overlap them without display issues appearing.

Third, was DEVO the test model name or is it displaying the Protocol?