GUI

Cool, also enough issue is static font color... we need a string printing function that can be passed a color code. I got frames working today, kind of a generic image object, though I am going to put some sort of 'parent-child' tie to it and gui objects that will be contained in them, this way on redraw everything can be rendered properly.

My next step is a dialog box, as well as a method to 'disable' a gui object from interaction, so that when a dialog is up nothing else responds.

I think I will stick to the current idea of a fixed gui array, however I am going to change strings to pointers, this way the text can either come from a const, or ram depending on the need. A fixed array of mostly pointers is not going to impact the memory footprint so bad.

How did you come up with the memory footprint of my GUI system anyway? I was curious to figure that out myself, and on that what would you say is a limit of memory footprint the GUI can use?

For string tables perhaps we should have some sort of ability to grab this from library file or whatever resource we use so that multiple languages can easily be supported?

At either rate I will probably build a basic string table for now just to keep it organized until we can tackle that .

Ok I got it About to experiment with the coloring, still trying to figure out how to convert the concept of an RGB color to this color format...

Ok it seems to be 0xRGB? Whats odd is if I make ? F and all 0 it's the same as 0x00f0... and 0x00ff seems to be full blue (equivlent of #0000ff for full rgb...

I agree with you about hardcoding colors, however the colors eventually get read is how they get read, but for now until we have a library system in place .

What function could I use to get some sort of time? Just to be able to make accurate timers (time itself doesn't need to be accurate but if it's possible that's nice too .

What about a basic function like php's time() function that returns miliseconds since (1970?), that way I can do something like:

timecheck = time();
... some code...

if ((time() - timecheck) >= 2000) { some code } // 2 second check

Ok good

How big of an impact does a pointer have on memory? I am working on getting Dialog boxes in, and I am almost done, but I tried to assign a callback function that has a different parameter setup then what the guiObject is spec'ed for, and obviously it doesn't work . So I need to add a callback pointer to the Dialogbox struct, which means any other object needing a custom type of callback is going to need an extra pointer in the struct.

I am pretty sure if I check the memory usage of the GUI now it is MUCH smaller footprint then before, but I don't know exactly how much, I still need to install the arm toolchain to do a real compile, and I have no intention of installing a rom on my device until the FS is in place, it is my primary controller I fly with and I generally fly every day, and flashing roms multiple times a day is going to be a choir enough, let alone now when the possiblity of bricking it is higher then it will be down the road a little .

Dialog box now added.

Just thought I would add a screenshot

I am going to explore the Eclipse settings and see if I can easily convert tabs to 4 spaces...

Yeah I eventually plan to implament font checking into the GUI.