Problem with M5TextBox



  • I'm having an odd problem displaying text. Certain coordinates do not display certain characters, etc.

    See the code below. The D does not display in label1. This came up initially when I was trying to position text to be correctly centered at 90 degree rotation.

    from m5stack import *
    from m5ui import *
    from uiflow import *

    @timerSch.event('timer1')
    def ttimer1():
    global curLetter

    if curLetter == "A":
    curLetter = "B"
    else:
    if curLetter == "B":
    curLetter = "C"
    else:
    if curLetter == "C":
    curLetter = "D"
    else:
    if curLetter == "D":
    curLetter = "A"
    label0.setText(curLetter)
    label1.setText(curLetter)
    pass

    setScreenColor(0x000000)
    curLetter = "A"
    label0 = M5TextBox(25, 20, curLetter, lcd.FONT_DejaVu72,0xFFFFFF, rotate=0)
    label1 = M5TextBox(29, 80, curLetter, lcd.FONT_DejaVu72,0xFFFFFF, rotate=0)
    timerSch.run('timer1', 500, 0x00)



  • I tested it and when it runs, the two texts can go from A-> B-> C-> D, and it looks like there is no problem.



  • Here's a video of my output.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYwlS4ADqOg&feature=youtu.be

    I tried firmware versions 1.4.4, 1.4.5, and 1.4.5.1 thinking maybe that's related but they all behaved the same.

    I'm not really sure what else I can do to troubleshoot this since it seems unique to my device.



  • Hi @noiseislife

    The "problem" in your example is, that the letter D is to wide to display completely on the display.
    Unfortunately letters are suppressed if they have not enough space on screen.

    This Example works :-)

    from m5stack import *
    from m5ui import *
    from uiflow import *
    
    @timerSch.event('timer1')
    
    def ttimer1():
      
      global curLetter
    
      if curLetter == "A":
        curLetter = "B"
      else:
        if curLetter == "B":
          curLetter = "C"
        else:
          if curLetter == "C":
            curLetter = "D"
          else:
            if curLetter == "D":
              curLetter = "A"
              
      label0.setText(curLetter)
      label1.setText(curLetter)
      pass
    
    setScreenColor(0x000000)
    curLetter = "A"
    label0 = M5TextBox(25, 20, curLetter, lcd.FONT_DejaVu72,0xFFFFFF, rotate=0)
    label1 = M5TextBox(25, 80, curLetter, lcd.FONT_DejaVu72,0xFFFFFF, rotate=0)
    
    timerSch.run('timer1', 500, 0x00)
    

    Best regards
    Thomas



  • What I was really trying to do was to center letters rotated 90 degrees, but even with that rotation the D disappears. You can change the angle in my code example to see this.



  • @noiseislife Because the rotation causes the coordinates to shift out of the screen, it cannot be total displayed. You only need to adjust the coordinates to display it completely.



  • I know what you're saying seems logical, but it is simply not the case.

    from m5stack import *
    from m5ui import *
    from uiflow import *
    
    setScreenColor(0x111111)
    label0 = M5TextBox(16, 38, "A", lcd.FONT_DejaVu72,0xFFFFFF, rotate=0)
    angle = None
    x = None
    angle = 0
    for count in range(90):
      label0.setRotate(angle)
      angle = (angle if isinstance(angle, int) else 0) + 1
    x = 16
    for count2 in range(25):
      label0.setPosition(x=x)
      x = (x if isinstance(x, int) else 0) + 1
    

    And the video:
    https://youtu.be/qsKmaJEeI6A



  • @noiseislife

    With a little "wait_ms()" its more clear what you mean :-)

    from m5stack import *
    from m5ui import *
    from uiflow import *
    
    setScreenColor(0x111111)
    label1 = M5TextBox(05, 05, "a", lcd.FONT_Default,0xFFFFFF, rotate=0)
    label2 = M5TextBox(05, 20, "x", lcd.FONT_Default,0xFFFFFF, rotate=0)
    label0 = M5TextBox(16, 50, "A", lcd.FONT_DejaVu72,0xFFFFFF, rotate=0)
    
    for angle in range(91):
      label0.setRotate(angle)
      label1.setText('angle:' + str(angle))
      wait_ms(50)
    
    for posX in range(16, 256):
      label0.setPosition(x=posX)
      label2.setText('pos-x:' + str(posX))
      wait_ms(100)
    

    I am sure it is ones more a bug :-)
    You can check this, if you let the angle zero. You can see that the char disappears at pos-x = 33. And the same behavior occurs, if you have rotated the char. It is obviously one more of the uncountable bugs.

    @M5Stack: Why does the M5Stack not draw a char if a small part is outside of the screen? We can display a char half way, if it is rotated, but not if it is at angle 0 degrees. That makes no sense. Maybe someone would like to program a scrolling text so that chars appears on the right and disappears on the left.

    Best regards
    Thomas