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Real-time sensor display with configurable menu settings #286

Open lloydvolson opened 4 years ago

lloydvolson commented 4 years ago

I am sensing heart rate with real-time values on a display. A SPI SSD1351 running a display screen built with ucglib exists in a function "monitorScreen()" . It can be called and displayed if nav.poll() is not called. Once polling begins the monitorScreen() will not co-exist with the menu system, or even take turns with it by trying to idle the menu... If I try to call monitorScreen() after polling has begun I get strange behavior. If idleTask or exit() manages to suspend the menu and I call monitorScreen I either get a flashing monitorScreen once a second or both screens overlaid on one another. It would be nice if the EXIT (<Back) item in mainMenu would just kick me out of mainMenu instead of to the top item in mainMenior hide mainMenu so I could get back to the monitorScreen display. Nothing I have tried has worked. Some similar working example or advice would be very helpful. Nothing in the Wiki or in "Issues", old or new, has helped. l can send more details, code, etc. Anyone had similar issues?

neu-rah commented 4 years ago

It makes sense what you describe, if you plan to use the display you should not call the menu poll or any menu IO functions (doInput/doOutput) as both systems will try to access the same hardware making screen flash (see https://github.com/neu-rah/ArduinoMenu/wiki/Idling#the-efficient-way). There might also be some hints on wiki FAQ.

one can:

just let me know if i can help further

lloydvolson commented 4 years ago

Thanks Rui, for a great library and excellent support. I tried the first two things and will see about the other two. Right now I am going to try to implement a State Machine with a switch case.

It would be great if there were a way to get the EXIT item in the mainMenu to disable polling and clear the screen until called again with a button press. Can that be tweaked in nav.cpp or nav.h with some if statement or bool? Maybe the State Machine option will work. I'll work on it today and let you know. Thanks again. to the real-time monitorScreen after setting configurations.

On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 10:08 PM Rui Azevedo notifications@github.com wrote:

It makes sense what you describe, if you plan to use the display you should not call the menu poll or any menu IO functions (doInput/doOutput) as both systems will try to access the same hardware making screen flash (see https://github.com/neu-rah/ArduinoMenu/wiki/Idling#the-efficient-way). There might also be some hints on wiki FAQ.

one can:

  • control timeout duration by setting nav. root timeOut (in seconds)
  • prevent exit/timeout by setting root nav. canExit to false
  • use timeout to start other process by calling it from the idle handler functions or by using idle handler to set a flag
  • know if menu entered timeout (idle state) by checking if nav.sleepTask is NULL

just let me know if i can help further

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neu-rah commented 4 years ago

Thanks @lloydvolson I can't disable polling that way because the menu would then idle forever, polling is responsible to put the menu out of idle state too. Suspending polling is therefor a thing that MUST be done by user code... as well as resuming it, you will probably also need a way to signal that the menu system should redraw after you have used the screen and to reset the inactivity counter. We could however add some functions to help users in this tasks.

lloydvolson commented 4 years ago

Thanks. I'm still blocked from proceeding. I have a good MainMenu a SubMenus that work well but can not 1) start out with the real-time sensor User Screen, go to the MainMenu to adjust settings, and then exit the MainMenu to get back to the user screen.

The Exit (Back) menu item does not exit the MainMenu, just scrolls back to the top item. What I would like to do is:

1) turn my device on and see my data coming in on the User Screen --this works well. 2) do a longer button-press to get to the MainMenu and adjust the Settings like setting the clock-- I can do this by starting nav.poll() but if I do this I get both the MainMenu and my user screen. I can't really get my user screen to disappear. I have tried moving it out of loop(), I have tried to use a State Machine (still working on it). I can scroll down but it is a mess and can't see much of the MainMenu. The numbers in the Test item, "55%" are blown up large to the size of large-font numbers I have on the User Screen, I can see cursor high-lighting but most things are blacked out.

What i want to happen is to either have the User Screen become transparent, draw the MainMenu, go to the SubMenu Settings, Exit the Submenu, Exit the MainMenu. 3) Exit the Settings Menu to go Back to Main Menu-- this works well 4) Exit the MainMenu to go back to the user screen. But the Exit (Back) option only returns me to the top of the MainMenu.

You said "Suspend" the MainMenu. How to do that? I think I have tried Idle Task and Timeout, maybe I'm doing it wrong.

Then "a way to signal that the menu system should redraw after you have used the screen? and to reset the inactivity counter." First, by "screen" do you mean my User Screen? I will not use the Menu System very much at all except to turn certain options on, off or adjust values.

"Inactivity counter". Do you mean IdleTimeout? Can I just have the timeout continue until there is a long button-press?

For the "Exit-Back" item in the MainMenu: it would be perfect if a short button-press just did a downCmd and that returned the cursor to the top, like it is doing now. But if I could program a longer button-press to suspend polling, return to my User Screen.

Then once back in the User Screen I could use a longer button-press to clear the screen ("ucg.clearScreen();"), and maybe end an IdleTimeout , see the MainMenu again to use it, then "Exit" when done and return to the User Screen.

You said "polling is responsible to put the menu out of idle state". Could the MainMenu just go black so my User Screen can be seen? Is that "dirty" or "LCD= NULL"? There is no explanation in the wiki or in your forum questions of how to use that.

Would it be helpful to show you a video of what I am trying to do? I have a watch-size device (pulse oximeter) developed in China 13 years ago using an SSD 1351 OLED and one button to enter the Settings, adjust the Settings, return to the User Screen, just like I want to do. They were able to figure out how to do it 13 years ago. The do have two microprocessors, one that does the sensing and the other that does all the display stuff and settings stuff. Not sure if that makes any difference. If it would help I could do a video of it working.

I think the answer will be to find a way to turn nav.poll() on and off. How do you turn it off? I think I can restart it again in code. Is the only way to do a TimeOut? There must be a way to just turn it off and back on. Can you help?

Thank you,

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Thanks @lloydvolson https://github.com/lloydvolson I can't disable polling that way because the menu would then idle forever, polling is responsible to put the menu out of idle state too. Suspending polling is therefor a thing that MUST be done by user code... as well as resuming it, you will probably also need a way to signal that the menu system should redraw after you have used the screen and to reset the inactivity counter. We could however add some functions to help users in this tasks.

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