Can we add buttons to the Button Bar at the bottom of an Edge screen

Hi All,

In a normal list on an Edge 1000 you have two buttons that appear at the bottom of the screen in the middle between the "back" and "menu" buttons these additional buttons allow you to scroll the list.

I am working on a custom menu and I would also like to use these identical buttons to scroll my list of items as it keeps the UI consistent, but I cannot find any documentation on this button bar and how I can use the same icons?

Is this possible and did I miss the relevant piece of documentation?!

Thanks in advance for your help,

Chris

jim_m_58 over 8 years ago

Since you're looking at a list type selection, I'm guessing you're taking about within a "watch" app (really a "device app" on non watches like the Edge, Oregon, Rino :) ) or a widget.

From what I've seen with the 820 and Rino in the sim, the "button bar" is a constant, and is not even part of the DC you see in CIQ so you can't access that part of the screen. Even if you could, FW icons aren't available in CIQ.

That said, on touch devices like the 1000, could you use up/down swipes to scroll the list, and a tap to select? On something like the 520, you could use KEY_UP/KEY_DOWN to scroll and KEY_ENTER to select, or just use the standard menus, and just use a delegate to get the selection.

READINGDANCER over 8 years ago

Trying to make the menu univeral.

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

Yes, this is being used in a "device app".

I have been trying to extend Dave Baldwin's Dmenu so that it can be used as a universal menu across different devices:

( https://github.com/davebaldwin/Dmenu )

So on some devices we have buttons, others touch screen etc, the aim is that this library could be easily plugged in to support them all in a similar way to the standard menus, but more flexible. For example in the menu in the App I am building I wanted to display icons next to each item and this is very easy with the library ( my modified version ).

On the Edge 1000 a standard menu shows an up and a down arrow in that bottom menu bar, hence I was hoping I could replicate that so the UX is the same, if not, your suggestion might be the only option. I am not sure what happens on the devices without a touch screen, I assume they will work in the same way as the watches with up and down buttons... I'll cross that bridge when I get to it ;)

Cheers,

Chris