Re: [lcd4linux] Request for enhancement of Bar Widget for the graphical driver

[Dmitry Y. <ye...@gm...>]

The best way to demonstrate the new bar styles would be through examples that use the following bars and just play with their styles and directions:
    Bar1:	expression =  3,	expression2 = 10
    Bar2:	expression =  5,	expression2 =  5
    Bar3:	expression = 10,	expression2 =  3

All the bars use the following widget configuration:
    class 'Bar'
    max 10
    barcolor0 Bar0 # red
    barcolor1 Bar1 # green
    update second

Here is the list of attached files that can be used with lcd4linux after applying my patches to the sources:

layout_explanation.png	– explains the screen layout of the examples

bar_original.conf + bar_original.png	– the configuration and the screenshot of the original styles in lcd4linux for split-bars (this config-file can be used with the current/unchanged version of lcd4linux).

bar_overlay.conf + bar_overlay.png		– the configuration and the screenshot for the "overlay" bar styles that always show smaller gauge on top of the bigger one; and use the first gauge when they are equal.  This style was coded as 'Y'; and 'y' to make it "hollow".

bar_fixed_layers.conf + bar_fixed_layers.png	– the configuration and the screenshot for the "fixed layers" bar styles that always show first gauge on top of the second one.  This style was coded as 'F'; and 'f' to make it "hollow".

Just a note on selecting letter 'Y' and 'y' for the "overlay" styles – I was originally going to use 'O' and 'o' to represent the style, but decided against it due to the fact that the default style is '0' (number zero) and it will make a lot of confusion when reading the wiki or configuration.

Thanks,

:-Dmitry