+ + OK we're back again baby. And this time I swear I am going to do + input. To show willing I've even already started diving into the + firmware to work out how it's done! +
+ +
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+ + So that firmware screenshot tells us all we need to know, + really. The Pip object has some events (in this case, 'knob1', + which is a) funny and b) the left hand wheel control) one which + you can register functions to call. +
++ This screenshot is from the portion of the code that handles + switching between the different health animations, but this + applies anywhere really. So what we need to do is: +
+Pretty simple! OK, lets go do that.
+ Code Updated. Check the github link to keep up. +And look at that! We're done.
+ ++ Nothing really special to talk about here, just some basic + increment/decrement handling and looping back to the start of + the list when necessary. +
++ There is a specific wrinkle of having to deregister the input + event. Early on in my testing I hadn't done that and it kept the + .js loaded even after removing the SD card, which meant it + looked like any edits I made weren't actually working. In order + to prevent this I added gracefulClose() which deregisters the + handler and shows the main menu again. +
++ Last thing here is really to handle what happens when we have + more perks than will fit in our available space. Then this + screen is basically done! +
+ Code Updated. Check the github link to keep up. ++ And now that's done too! Couple of bugs with loading the right + files to list (primarily loading too many) but smart use of the + modulo operator and we're done! I filled in every perk I think + is funny and applicable to me, did some manual edits to some of + the icons (new vegas icons seem to generally be less optimised + for a real monochrome display, a rare instance where Bethesda's + attention to detail is better than Obsidian's) and filled in all + their data and, well, that's it! +
+ ++ I'm pretty happy with it! This was a really enjoyable project + and let me flex a lot of the muscles I don't tend to use a lot + in my pure software day-to-day. +
++ I might come back to this later and make a second screen with + stats on it, but that's basically the same layout etc as the + perks screen just with a number, so I probably won't write it + up. +
++ So yeah, for now, I'll leave it here. Thank you for reading and + following my thought processes, if you did! +
+ Code Updated. Check the github link to keep up. ++ OK I LIED one last update. I wanted to handle the selector on + the right moving away from INV gracefully. Until now, switching + this while in the app would do nothing, and to get around this I + had the click in of the left wheel as the 'return me to the main + menu' key. That's not very accurate to how it should work, + though. +
++ So I dove into the firmware again and after a few false starts I + found checkMode(). This is called on a timer in all the other + apps every 50 milliseconds. I experimented a little with this + timeout in my app - 50ms made the perk list feel laggy (because + I'm loading data from disk so ops take a bit more time than + everything else in the system) so I tweaked it up to 100ms, + which was a nice compromise. +
++ Twiddling the mode dial triggers a menu change, but I also made + sure to gracefully shutdown when a change was detected - this + includes running showMainMenu(), which if we don't do the + control handlers don't get registered properly. Important. +
++ I also dropped in a handler for the torch button - it does + nothing other than shutdown and activate the torch normally. + While testing this I actually found a bug with the current + firmware - if you stay on the torch page and the time changes, + the footer will display over the torch screen. Neat! +
+Anyway that is really it this time. Thanks for reading <3
++ OK I WORKED ON IT A BIT MORE but as mentioned it wasn't + particularly exciting - this actually reuses basically all the + same code, with just a smidge more for drawing the skill points. +
++ I did actually have all the skills in one big JSON but it caused + an out of memory error, so I abandoned it and went back to + individual files for each skill. +
+Anyway, here's it working!
+ ++ Final update! I added the SPECIAL screen too, and reordered the + screens to match the in-game pipboy. Finally I also did some TLC + to make the app a lot more responsive and reduce redraws, so now + it feels really snappy :) +