Fullscreen data field - how?

062b7c047dd24914b28dab28462d0eee 6 months ago

I know this was discussed probably too many times already but here we go again... I'm creating a data field and I want to display data in a fancy way when full screen and as simple as SimpleDataField otherwise. I would think of two approaches:

1) Require field to be full screen only (like some Garmin chart data fields), or

2) Switching between DataField and SimpleDataField depending on the layout.

I know both are not possible from what I have already read. So.. My question would be what tricks do you guys use to "emulate" a SimpleDataField layout? And is there an open source code for SimpleDataField to look at?

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flocsy🤠 6 months ago +1

1. is kind of possible. You can't enforce it, but look at datafields like GRun. You can add it anywhere, but you'll only see the top part of it, because it draws everything based on the screen size and…
jim_m_58 6 months ago +1

Keep it as a Complex Data field, and decide how you want things to look based on the dc's width, height, and obscurity flags.
peterdedecker 6 months ago in reply to flocsy🤠 +1

flocsy said:
The label position and font size can be extracted from simulator.json. The problem is it doesn't always fit the real device. I.e on edge devices the label font used by the system is different…

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flocsy🤠 6 months ago

There's also this feature-request: https://forums.garmin.com/developer/connect-iq/i/bug-reports/feature-request-add-simpledatafield-setlabel

which tries to achieve much less than what you want, and we're still just hoping it'll come some day (and of course if it will it'll only be for newer devices, which means you'll need a fallback solution for older devices anyway)

peterdedecker 6 months ago in reply to flocsy🤠

flocsy🤠 said:
The label position and font size can be extracted from simulator.json. The problem is it doesn't always fit the real device. I.e on edge devices the label font used by the system is different size from any of the FONT_ constants

Even SimpleDatafield does not match the native look. If it were easy to solve....

peterdedecker 6 months ago in reply to 062b7c047dd24914b28dab28462d0eee

062b7c047dd24914b28dab28462d0eee said:
about is 3rd party implementation of SimpleDataField with just a label and a single metric so that if on a specific layout I don't want anything but those two then I don't need to reinvent the wheel. But at the same time on a full screen layout I can do my own customization with more than just two texts.

I think it's a valid use case. You should post a feature request in the bug forum.