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It worth a try, because it adds max one longpress time delay...PhracturedBlue wrote:
I thought about it before, and maybe we should try it, but I think it isn't intuitive. Maybe it is better if the button highlights when you press it (like the keyboard) so you have some context of what you are about to do.One way to deal with it is to use the release edge of the pulse to trigger the events. Then you already know how long was it pressed. Of course you have to wait only the amount of time required for the long press, before you can fire that events...
I've already suggested a pressed (not necessarily highlighted) state for the buttons, but then you have to deal with separate bitmaps for the different parts of the complex controls:
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Yes, I like visual feedback more, than beeps. It would help not only with the long presses, but to feedback the physical button presses. It would teach the user, which button effects which part of the widgets...PhracturedBlue wrote: I'm not sure what you mean by the 'pressed' state. Do you mean for feedback on widgets that take a long-press?
Implementing the 'change color on press' for the keyboard was actually very complicated. I don't really want to implement it for other widgets unless it gives some real benefit. Most widgets immediately react when you press them, so I'm not sure of the benefit of having a pressed state.
Later I will make some main screen layout examples...
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Can we keep the file open?PhracturedBlue wrote: When I get some time, I'll do some measurements on how long it takes to open and read a bmp on the devo8. That will help to determine what the best options are as far as duplicate vs composite bitmaps.
We would use the arrows.bmp most of the time...
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Possibly. On the Devo8 only one file can be 'open' at a time, but I was considering duplicating the data structure to simulate the file being kept open. I'll need to experiment to see what the options are.FDR wrote:
Can we keep the file open?PhracturedBlue wrote: When I get some time, I'll do some measurements on how long it takes to open and read a bmp on the devo8. That will help to determine what the best options are as far as duplicate vs composite bitmaps.
We would use the arrows.bmp most of the time...
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devo8.bmp: 270msec
btn90_24.bmp: 10msec
btn46_24: 5msec
arrows.bmp: between 1 and 2 msec
btn48_16.bmp: 4msec
btn64_16.bmp: 5msec
spin96.bmp: 7msec
btn96_16.bmp: 7msecso, I think it should be fine to split the spinbox into a text-entry + 2 arrows. The total time will be within a msec per widget. I also found that I was redrawing the background much more often than needed. Each time a transparent bmp or text is drawn, the background underneath it is drawn too. that is only necessary if the widget changes, not when the widget is 1st shown. I need to enable debugging and try to determine how to only redraw when needed, which should significantly speed up page draw time.
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It seems, that the times are proportional to the size.
We will need to double (or triple) the size of the control bitmaps with the selected and pressed states. I assume the time is less if you only read in a part of the bitmap...
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The controls are ARGB1555 bmps as I see, but since the background does not need transparency we could use some else to reduce it's size...
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Now all the fields look like a combined button+spinbox.PhracturedBlue wrote: I just changed the spin-box to use the btn16_* buttons + arrows. The next step will be to support a pressed-version of them.
Shouldn't we create separate field bitmaps to use for the simple spinbuttons?
Have you reveived my email with the files?
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I just had to redo my pictures...
It doesn't seem slower...
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You won't be able to see the performance on the emulator. The actual transmitter is much slower. But I don't think you'll see the difference there either.FDR wrote: Thanks, now it is like before.
I just had to redo my pictures...
It doesn't seem slower...
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But I may need some help to do it on Windows.
If I understand right, I have to install mercurial client.
I've already made a bitbucket repository.
What else do I need?
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How have you been getting my latest changes? just downloading the whole thing from bitbucket?FDR wrote: I would like to start refining the gui, if you don't mind.
But I may need some help to do it on Windows.
If I understand right, I have to install mercurial client.
I've already made a bitbucket repository.
What else do I need?
since you can already build the code, all you need is to get mercurial up and running.
Once hg is installed:
hg clone bitbucket.org/PhracturedBlue/deviation
cd deviation
edit .hg/hgrc with the following so that you pull from my repo, and push to your own:
[paths]
default = https://bitbucket.org/PhracturedBlue/deviation
default-push = <your bitbucket repo here>
[ui]
username = FDR <email@whatever>when you are happy, commit your changes locally:
hg commit -m "some description of the change"
you can now continue making changes and commiting, or push your changes to bitbucket with:
hg push
I can't help you with getting hg going on Windows, but as kohansey said, there is ToriseHg which should be gui oriented.
Edit: I think you also need to create a new repo in bitbucket (through the web-page), and either make it public or invite me to be able to see it.
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I've installed TortoiseHg.
Created a bitbucket repository: https://bitbucket.org/FDR/deviation
Comitted the deviation dir from the explorer, but there are some files and directories, which icon hasn't changed. Strange...
Now I'm trying to figure out how to push to my repository...
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a couple of useful commands:FDR wrote: So far I always downloaded the whole zip.
I've installed TortoiseHg.
Created a bitbucket repository: https://bitbucket.org/FDR/deviation
Comitted the deviation dir from the explorer, but there are some files and directories, which icon hasn't changed. Strange...
Now I'm trying to figure out how to push to my repository...
hg status will show you what files in your repo are moidified and not committed
hg diff will show you whatis actually different
hg revert <file> will remove all of your changes from '<file>' (the old version will be saved as <file>.orig)
Also, i just pushed changes that will break your icons again. Now all buttons and spinboxes have 2 flavors. The normal one, and the 'pressed' one. the pressed is placed right below the normal, and must have identical dimensions.
I haven't done the spinbox 'main' yet, since I haven't yet decided if we should have an alternate icon for pressable ones.
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Mine now looks almost exactly like yours, is that supposed to be?
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