[Energia Library] LCD_screen Library Suite

[Rei Vilo 695]

The library for the Kentec 3.5" is close to completion. 

 

Thanks to its 8-bit parallel connection, writing to and reading from the screen are much faster!

 

49 ms only to copy-paste a 64x64 area instead of the 438 ms required by the SPI-connected HY28A.

 

 

I have still to finalise the touch interface and obviously the documentation...

 

Having the SRAM + EEPROM BoosterPack would be nice.

 

[reaper7 67]

HY28A & ST7735 works great with LCD SCREEN LIBRARY SUITE !

 

On the photo - one stellaris, one wizfi210 and two displays together in action,

measuring the wifi signal strength: ST7735 gauge, HY28A histogram

 

 

TNX Rei!

[Rei Vilo 695]

@@reaper7

 

You're welcome

 

Glad to know it works fine. I need to explore the WiFi with one of those WizFi210...

[Rei Vilo 695]

I'm experiencing unexpected difficulties with reading the coordinates from the 4-wire resistive touch-screen of the Kentec 3.5".

 

When moving my finger horizontally, both x and y coordinates change. Same for vertically.

 

Only one coordinate should change. I suspect some initialisation problem.

 

See the specific thread HELP - 4-Wire Resistive Touch-Screen Reading with Energia.

 

Thank you for your help!

[reaper7 67]

@@Rei Vilo - two suggestions for additional functionality:

- on screen keyboard for screens with touch
- drawBitmap from *.h/*.c files or other sources like SD (two bytes per pixel RGB 565)

[Rei Vilo 695]

@@reaper7

 

Do you have the code for the keyboard?

[reaper7 67]

I have a ino file for old HY28A lib

this is 10x6 squares drawn in loop and tables of chars drawn in the same loop too...

 

I don't know if it will be useful for you:

//KEYBOARD
#define KBDROWS       5     //number of keyboard rows
#define KBDCOLS       10    //number of keyboard cols
#define KBDSTEP       32    //distance (in px) between the start of two buttons
#define KBDLEFT       2     //absolute distance from the left side of the display 
#define KBDTOP        48    //absolute distance from the top of the display
#define KBDFONTLEFT   4     //absolute distance from the left side of the display to the first letter (eq. 1,q,a,z,<)
#define KBDBTNSIZE    28    //button size (without frame)
#define KBDFONTSIZE   3     //keyboard font size
#define KBDFNCBTNSIZE 60    //function keys h size

#define  KEY_SPACE    0x20
#define  KEY_CLEAR    0x7f
#define  KEY_ENTER    0x0a
#define  KEY_EXIT     0xfe
#define  KEY_SHIFT    0xfd
#define  KEY_NULL     0xff 

const char  keyboard[51]= "1234567890qwertyuiopasdfghjkl:zxcvbnm,.?<>-+*/=[]'";
const char  keyboardshift[51]= "!@#$%^&_()QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKL:ZXCVBNM<>?{}[]-+\";\\|";

void printquerty()
{
   uint8_t x,y;
   char onefont[2];
   for(y = 0; y < KBDROWS; y++)
   {
     for(x = 0; x < KBDCOLS; x++)
     {
       myScreen.dRectangle((KBDLEFT+(KBDSTEP*x)), (KBDTOP+(KBDSTEP*y)), KBDBTNSIZE, KBDBTNSIZE, grayColour);
       if ( SHIFT ) { onefont[0]=keyboardshift[((y*10)+x)]; } else { onefont[0]=keyboard[((y*10)+x)]; }
       myScreen.gText((KBDLEFT+KBDFONTLEFT+(KBDSTEP*x)), (KBDTOP+KBDFONTLEFT+(KBDSTEP*y)), (String)onefont[0], whiteColour, grayColour, KBDFONTSIZE, KBDFONTSIZE);
     }
   }
}

void printfunckeys()
{
    uint16_t funckeycolor;
    
    myScreen.dRectangle(KBDLEFT, (KBDTOP+(KBDSTEP*5)), KBDFNCBTNSIZE, KBDBTNSIZE, grayColour);
    myScreen.gText((KBDLEFT+(KBDFONTLEFT*4)), (KBDTOP+KBDFONTLEFT+(KBDSTEP*5)), "exit", whiteColour, grayColour, KBDFONTSIZE-2, KBDFONTSIZE);
    
    myScreen.dRectangle(KBDLEFT+(KBDSTEP*2), (KBDTOP+(KBDSTEP*5)), KBDFNCBTNSIZE, KBDBTNSIZE, grayColour);
    myScreen.gText(KBDLEFT+(KBDFONTLEFT*4)+(KBDSTEP*2), (KBDTOP+KBDFONTLEFT+(KBDSTEP*5)), "clear", whiteColour, grayColour, KBDFONTSIZE-2, KBDFONTSIZE);
    
    myScreen.dRectangle(KBDLEFT+(KBDSTEP*4), (KBDTOP+(KBDSTEP*5)), KBDFNCBTNSIZE, KBDBTNSIZE, grayColour);
    myScreen.gText(KBDLEFT+(KBDFONTLEFT*4)+(KBDSTEP*4), (KBDTOP+KBDFONTLEFT+(KBDSTEP*5)), "space", whiteColour, grayColour, KBDFONTSIZE-2, KBDFONTSIZE);
    
    myScreen.dRectangle(KBDLEFT+(KBDSTEP*6), (KBDTOP+(KBDSTEP*5)), KBDFNCBTNSIZE, KBDBTNSIZE, grayColour);
    if ( SHIFT ) { funckeycolor=blueColour; } else { funckeycolor=whiteColour; }   
    myScreen.gText(KBDLEFT+(KBDFONTLEFT*4)+(KBDSTEP*6), (KBDTOP+KBDFONTLEFT+(KBDSTEP*5)), "shift", funckeycolor, grayColour, KBDFONTSIZE-2, KBDFONTSIZE);
    
    myScreen.dRectangle(KBDLEFT+(KBDSTEP*8), (KBDTOP+(KBDSTEP*5)), KBDFNCBTNSIZE, KBDBTNSIZE, grayColour);
    myScreen.gText(KBDLEFT+(KBDFONTLEFT*4)+(KBDSTEP*8), (KBDTOP+KBDFONTLEFT+(KBDSTEP*5)), "enter", whiteColour, grayColour, KBDFONTSIZE-2, KBDFONTSIZE);    
}

void getkey()
{
  int xres, yres;
 
  xres=(int)(x-KBDLEFT)/KBDSTEP;  //x from myScreen.getTouch(x, y, z)
  yres=(int)(y-KBDTOP)/KBDSTEP;   //y from myScreen.getTouch(x, y, z)

  if ((xres<KBDCOLS) && (yres<KBDROWS))
  {
    if ( SHIFT ) { pressedkey[0]=keyboardshift[((yres*10)+xres)]; } else { pressedkey[0]=keyboard[((yres*10)+xres)]; } 
  }
  else if (yres==5)
  {
    switch(x) 
    {
      case KBDLEFT ... (KBDLEFT+KBDFNCBTNSIZE):
          pressedkey[0]=KEY_EXIT;
          break;
      case (KBDLEFT+(KBDSTEP*2)) ... (KBDLEFT+(KBDSTEP*2)+KBDFNCBTNSIZE):
          pressedkey[0]=KEY_CLEAR;
          break;
      case (KBDLEFT+(KBDSTEP*4)) ... (KBDLEFT+(KBDSTEP*4)+KBDFNCBTNSIZE):
          pressedkey[0]=KEY_SPACE;
          break; 
      case (KBDLEFT+(KBDSTEP*6)) ... (KBDLEFT+(KBDSTEP*6)+KBDFNCBTNSIZE):
          pressedkey[0]=KEY_SHIFT;
          break; 
      case (KBDLEFT+(KBDSTEP*8)) ... (KBDLEFT+(KBDSTEP*8)+KBDFNCBTNSIZE):
          pressedkey[0]=KEY_ENTER;
          break;              
    }      
  }
  else
    pressedkey[0]=KEY_NULL;   
}

[Rei Vilo 695]

Thanks to @@igor, touch issue is solved for the Kentec 3.5" screen.

 

Stay tuned for upcoming release!

[reaper7 67]

Keyboard example (screen touch to serial) for LCD_SCREEN_LIBRARY_SUITE:

LCD_KEYBOARD.zip

[Rei Vilo 695]

Nice

 

Many questions:

 

How to deal with the letters with accents. Most of the European language include many of them.

 

For example, to name a few:

• In French: àâäæéèêëîïôöœùüû瀜
• In Spanish: áäéëíïóöúüñ¿¡

Why not using a smartphone-like keyboard?

 

Some popular smartphone feature four pages, each page with 4 lines and up to 10 keys per line. It saves a lot of space.

 

How to deal with Backspace?

[reaper7 67]

This is only old example / concept, who used my old Terminal6x8 chars(all) without regional

 

Backspace realized by "clear" button on bottom line(KEY_CLEAR), in my case simply move cursor back (1 letter width),  not included in example above.

 

Smartphone-like keyboard? I use http://www.etaoikeyboard.com -> one line with 5 multi-keys

 

BTW - I never thought about it, I just played with this a hour or two

I think that You choose something suitable for most users

 

P.S. in Polish: ąĄćĆęĘłŁńŃóÓśŚźŹżŻ

[Rei Vilo 695]

P.S. in Polish: ąĄćĆęĘłŁńŃóÓśŚźŹżŻ

 

You're the champions!

[Rei Vilo 695]

New issue:

    /// @bug    trim() doesn't work on Stellaris

    /// @see    http://github.com/energia/Energia/issues/257

 

Now fixed with a manual function: 

    uint8_t i = 0;
    uint8_t j = _text.length();
    while ((_text.charAt(i)==' ') && (i<j)) {
        i++;
    }
    while ((_text.charAt(j)==' ') && (j>0)) {
        j--;
    }
    if (j>i) _text = _text.substring(i, j);
    else _text = "";

[Rei Vilo 695]

The library for the Kentec 3.5 BoosterPack is available here

 

The library wouldn't have been possible without the help of the forum and its members. Many thanks to them!

 

As a colourful example, I've included a tool for drawing.

 

 

This is a cross-post with the 43oh forum.

[Rei Vilo 695]

@@abecedarian, yes

 

Ideally a in-between BoosterPack with room for

• 2x 1Mb fast SRAM for caching 
• enough EEPROM for fonts
• SD-card or uSD-card slot

All this on one single hardware SPI bus with 3 CS, and ideally with jumpers to select the SPI bus among the 4 of the Launchpad Stellaris...

 

Well, back to the 8-bit parallel Kentec 3.5" screen...

 

I posted a Call for Design - SD-Card + EEPROM + SRAM BoosterPack for Stellaris LaunchPad and also at the sister 43oh website.