within the menu. Items can also have a preview image, which is shown when the
item is highlighted.
-All components have a name. This is purely for debugging, so it is easy to see
-what object is referred to. Of course the ID numbers can help as well, but they
-are less easy to distinguish.
+A `textline object` contains a label and an editable string.
+
+All components have a name. This is mostly for debugging, so it is easy to see
+what object is referred to, although the name is also used for saving values.
+Of course the ID numbers can help as well, but they are less easy to
+distinguish.
While the expo implementation provides support for handling keypresses and
rendering on the display or serial port, it does not actually deal with reading
sequences into keys. However, expo has some special menu-key codes for
navigating the interface. These are defined in `enum bootmenu_key` and include
`BKEY_UP` for moving up and `BKEY_SELECT` for selecting an item. You can use
-`bootmenu_conv_key()` to convert an ASCII key into one of these.
+`bootmenu_conv_key()` to convert an ASCII key into one of these, but if it
+returns a value >= `BKEY_FIRST_EXTRA` then you should pass the unmodified ASCII
+key to the expo, since it may be used by textline objects.
Once a keypress is decoded, call `expo_send_key()` to send it to the expo. This
may cause an update to the expo state and may produce an action.
"menu"
Menu containing items which can be selected by the user
+ "textline"
+ A line of text which can be edited
+
id
type: u32, required
Specifies the description for each item in the menu. These are currently
only intended for use in simple mode.
+Textline nodes have the following additional properties:
+
+label / label-id
+ type: string / u32, required
+
+ Specifies the label of the textline. This is shown to the left of the area
+ for this textline.
+
+edit-id
+ type: u32, required
+
+ Specifies the ID of the of the editable text object. This can be used to
+ obtain the text from the textline
+
+max-chars:
+ type: u32, required
+
+ Specifies the maximum number of characters permitted to be in the textline.
+ The user will be prevented from adding more.
+
Expo layout
~~~~~~~~~~~
ID_AC_ON,
ID_AC_MEMORY,
+ ID_MACHINE_NAME,
+ ID_MACHINE_NAME_EDIT,
+
ID_DYNAMIC_START,
*/
item-id = <ID_AC_OFF ID_AC_ON ID_AC_MEMORY>;
};
+
+ machine-name {
+ id = <ID_MACHINE_NAME>;
+ type = "textline";
+ max-chars = <20>;
+ title = "Machine name";
+ edit-id = <ID_MACHINE_NAME_EDIT>;
};
};
- Image formats other than BMP
- Use of ANSI sequences to control a serial terminal
- Colour selection
-- Support for more widgets, e.g. text, numeric, radio/option
+- Support for more widgets, e.g. numeric, radio/option
- Mouse support
- Integrate Nuklear, NxWidgets or some other library for a richer UI
- Optimise rendering by only updating the display with changes since last render