Topics created by BrianR

Well, I have a couple of spots in my project that a button press would make things very easy. For example, I'm using M5ez for my interface, and use Blynk to display events on the M5 screen. I have backlight timeout set to 30 seconds. A new event doesn't turn the backlight back on, but a keypress does. So, in my if (newEvent) loop, I could have a M5.BtnA.press(), that would wake up the screen. Can I go into the M5ez library, figure out what happens after a real button press to wake the screen and replicate that? Yes, of course, and I have certainly tried that, but some of the items that need to be set are private, so calling them from a main loop is problematic. Rewriting that stuff so it's all public might work, but that solves one problem. I'd also like menus to time out - if there's no activity after going into a menu, I'd like it to time out and go back to the main menu. Again, code can certainly make that happen, but a M5.BtnA.press() would be a lot easier to implement... Does this make sense?

Have the ezTimeLog example loaded up. It is printing lines at the bottom of the canvas, and shifting previously printed lines up, indeed just like a terminal screen watching serial output. I think I misunderstood the scrolling functionality as the ability to use buttons to go back through the history at the top that had already scrolled off the screen. I see in issue #24 you say "canvas.print creates a buffer in memory that stores every print until it has scrolled off the screen", so that's not the way it works - sorry for my confusion. Indeed, creating menu items that don't do anything would be a possible solution. I tried that early on, but found that once the menu was drawn (or run), it merely sits and waits for buttons. I have not tried creating a function that does an .addItem, then runs the menu again, and run that function with an .addEvent. I'll give that a try as soon as possible. Is there a limit to the number of menu items, other than memory constraints? If I'm successful getting the "menu" to redraw, I'll let you know, and I guess I'll see what the limits might be! Thanks so much, @rop, your work is very appreciated!!!