"pop-up" menu in app

Hello Garmin developers, I am looking to add an "alarm snooze" function so that I can snooze an alarm that I trigger i my app. Ideally I would like to show a menu from the bottom (see pic), and use the up-button to dismiss the alarm, and down button to snooze it. I have not done any investigations yet on how to best implement this and before I do so I just wanted to see if anyone built something similar before and could point me in the right direction. I guess I first need to figure out how to display the menu and second how to fetch press button events.

I am currently not using layouts but could switch to layouts if that is easier to use for what I need.

Thanks!

0 sabeard over 5 years ago

Depending on the devices you support, I think the feature you are looking for can be handled with layers that were added in CIQ 3.1. Layers allow you to enable and draw additional device context layers depending on events. Kind of like pushing a partial view on top of the current view without the overhead of a entire separate view to manage.

The button presses would have to be handled in you view behavior delegate.

0 Fsallstrom over 5 years ago in reply to sabeard

Thank you! I will look into layers, right now Im using dc.draws and not layouts, should that be a problem you think? Yes, I have enabled button listeners in my behaviour delegate and that works fine.

0 jim_m_58 over 5 years ago in reply to Fsallstrom

You can probably just handle it as part of the current view. When you're in the state where you display it, just use dc calls to draw it, and in the delegate, use up/down/select. In this case you don't want to push a new view, as you want the top half of the display to continue to update due to new data, a notification, etc.

0 Fsallstrom over 5 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

thanks Jim, this is what I am implementing right now. Would be really nice though to have the menu to slide up from the bottom, but thats more of a nice-to-have than a must-have.

0 sabeard over 5 years ago in reply to Fsallstrom

If you do end up utilizing layers, it works best using dc.draw functions. Layouts are not needed.

0 Juggus over 5 years ago in reply to Fsallstrom

You can do it my a timer.

When the user clic on 'Dismiss', update the screen every 200ms, and change the 'y' coordinates of all objects that you display in your popup. it works fine.