Flowcode 11 Graphical Display Manager Demonstration

[BenR]

Hello All,

I've put together a bit of a demonstration of the new graphical display features available in v11 here.

https://youtu.be/8pBGSSQuoaI

Please feel free to comment and ask any questions below.

[jgu1]

Hi Ben!

Thanks again for your example and the thorough walkthrough — it’s really useful. I’ve studied it over and over to learn from it, and I can see all the advantages of the Display Manager: it makes it fast to create different buttons, text fields, adjust layout, and use various colors.

I’ve asked about this before but didn’t quite create this, so I hope you can help — maybe with an example.

I now understand the different functions you demonstrated. What I can’t figure out is this:

If I want to create a “main menu” with, for example, three buttons — let’s say Volt, Amp, and Watt — I want to be able to press (for example) the Volt button and switch to a “Volt scene.” There, it should continuously display the current voltage value until I press a “Home” button.

After that, I should be able to press the Amp button, and the screen should switch to an “Ammeter scene,” and continuously display the current values until I press a “Home” button there as well.

I can make this work, but the values are only shown once — they are not updated continuously unless I exit and re-enter the scene.

I hope you understand what I mean.

Br Jorgeb

[BenR]

Hello Jorgen,

The button handler macro changes scene as required and then in the main loop you need to check which scene is active and then process the code specific for that scene. e.g. on the voltage scene you would sample the voltage and display. On the current scene you would sample the current and display.

Do you want to post what you have so far and I'll have a quick look for you. You basically need to do the update as part of the main loop.

Or I can create another quick demo video showing how to do this if that would be useful.

[jgu1]

Hi Ben!

If you please Will: Or I can create another quick demo video showing how to do this if that would be useful.

Absolute, please, I am grateful, so please

Jorgen

[jgu1]

Hi Ben!

First, I have used the ADS1115 in another project today, this component work very fine in FC11, perfect both in simulation and on HW, and is very liniary and stable

I have continued studying and practicing with DisplayManager and experiments and trying things out. In my practice program, I have added the ASD1115 component and used it as a voltmeter, and indeed it works in simulation. However, when I press the "voltmeter button," it also goes to the Scene with the voltmeter, but only once. It does not update continuously if I change the voltage; it only updates if I go to "home" and then back to the voltmeter, at which point the new voltage is shown. I would like it to update continuously while I am in "Voltmeter Sceene", how do I do that?
I learned a lot with Displaymanager the last 3 hours

I wanted to test it on hardware but I get an error when compiling, and I cannot figure out what I am doing wrong. I hope you have time to take a look at it.

Thank you in advance.

Jorgen

[BenR]

Hi Jorgen,

I'm going to make another video for you tomorrow which I hope will help.

[jgu1]

Super Ben

Jorgen