Acknowledged
4 days ago

22.22 FR165 DrawRadialText symbol not found

Since the last update, 22.22, method Dc.drawRadialText stopped working on the FR165 and FR165m.
It works fine in the sim, but crashes on a real device with error "Symbol not found".

I reported this last month when it was still in Beta as well: 

https://forums.garmin.com/beta-program/forerunner-165-series/forerunner-165-series---bug-reports/i/public-beta-version-22-xx/drawradialtext-symbol-not-found-in-dc

Now the software is rolling out, apps that use this will method will crash (including two of my watchfaces) with no easy way to work around this.

GreenBlack
  • 4 days ago

    On a somewhat related note, it's interesting to me that fr165/compiler.json has "enhancedGraphicSupport": false. In the past it's been stated (or assumed) that a true value for enhancedGraphicSupport means that the device has a GPU, whereas a false value (or the absence of the key) means the device does not have a GPU.

    I always assumed that a function like drawRadialText would require an actual GPU on the device. (Yes, I am aware that the supported device list for drawRadialText includes fr165).

    It was also previously assumed that CIQ 4 (and beyond) devices would all have GPUs.

    This apparent inconsistency has come up before (specifically in relation to new devices like fr165 and vivoactive5 which have enhancedGraphicSupport == false, but nonetheless support certain "advanced" CIQ 4 graphics functions), and I wish Garmin would clarify a few things.

    1) Is enhancedGraphicSupport == true if and only if a device has a GPU? Or does enhancedGraphicSupport == true actually imply something else?

    2) Concerning the "new" CIQ 4 graphics features - e.g. vector fonts, affine transformations, draw radial text - which of them actually need a GPU? Are some of these functions actually implemented in software, for CIQ 4+ devices that don't have a GPU (if any such devices actually exist)?

    > It works fine in the sim, but crashes on a real device with error "Symbol not found".

    Yeah, fr165/fr165.api.debug.xml still contains drawRadialText.

    > Now the software is rolling out, apps that use this will method will crash (including two of my watchfaces) with no easy way to work around this.

    I guess you could use a has check for symbols like drawRadialText and set the --disable-api-has-check-removal compiler flag.

     

  • 4 days ago

    Too bad the beta forum is a "write only" forum Disappointed