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Progress indication while (partial) flashing #396

Open pelikhan opened 5 years ago

pelikhan commented 5 years ago

When the bit is in Pairing Mode and partial flashing is receiving packets, it would be great to show some kind of progress indicator (either blink system LED or use the screen). This would be VERY helpful. We are in the pairing mode, so we can really do whatever we want with the screen.

@jaustin @finneyj @microbit-sam

jaustin commented 5 years ago

I like this. As we discovered before animations are RAM-heavy so something procedurally generated on the display would be ideal.

I'd rather show activity than progress, as that latter is notoriously hard to do well, unless @microbit-sam you already know how large you expect the program to be?

J

On Fri, 12 Oct 2018, 16:53 Peli de Halleux, notifications@github.com wrote:

When the bit is in Pairing Mode and partial flashing is receiving packets, it would be great to show some kind of progress indicator (either blink system LED or use the screen). This would be VERY helpful. We are in the pairing mode, so we can really do whatever we want with the screen.

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microbit-sam commented 5 years ago

No, we currently don't know how large a file is, but could tell the m:b before setting off the partial flash.. would be nice to fill the screen up pixel by pixel until it's complete

pelikhan commented 5 years ago

Correct no progress but activity would be great, blinking a single LED enough.