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over 1 year ago

Relative Layouts with text-areas crash on Fenix 5x

Hi, I use relative layouts with text-areas in my watch face. When the user runs the watch face in preview it works fine, but when the user selects the watch face, it crashes and the watch reverts to the previous/default watch face. The crash log file has this:

Error: Symbol Not Found Error
Details: "Could not find symbol '<Toybox_WatchUi_TextArea_>>fitTextToArea>'"
Time: 2024-02-11T10:38:40Z
Part-Number: 006-B2604-00
Firmware-Version: '25.00'
Language-Code: eng
ConnectIQ-Version: 4.2.3
Filename: F97B28AD
Appname: Dexcom Watch Face
Stack: 
  - pc: 0x300026ea
  - pc: 0x300021f8
  - pc: 0x30001642
  - pc: 0x300015aa
  - pc: 0x10002753
    File: 'C:\Users\fsall\OneDrive\Garmin\Garmin Projects\DexFace\source\DexFaceView.mc'
    Line: 190
    Function: onUpdate
 

It crashes on line 190 in the onUpdate function in my view class. Line 190 has this:

View.onUpdate(dc);

The description in the crash log has: Details: "Could not find symbol '<Toybox_WatchUi_TextArea_>>fitTextToArea>'"

The target is Fenix 5x. 

Fsallstrom
  • over 1 year ago in reply to flocsy🤠

    Hi, I don'tknow why you think this is a problem in my code. As I explained above, when I use <text-area> with multiple fonts it crashes, but after I change to <label> it works. Nothing else was changed in my code. Clearly chaninging from text-area to label in the layout did the trick. The Fenix 5x device should support text areas, its compatible with CIQ 3.1.0.   

  • over 1 year ago

    Same here. text area causes crash on real fenix charlie device, but not in the simulator.

  • over 1 year ago

    Solved it by removing text-areas from my layouts for the Fenix 5x and replaced with labels. It seems Fenix 5x does not properly handle text-areas (that includes multiple fonts), which it should since it supports API 3.1.0. Text areas require API level 3.1.0 according to https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/api-docs/Toybox/WatchUi/TextArea.html

    Text areas work fine to compile and runs fine in the sim but crashes on target when the user applies the watch face.  

    This layout makes the watch face crash on target (fenix 5x):

    <text-area id="TimeLabel" x="center" y="55%" width="100%" height="30%" justification="Graphics.TEXT_JUSTIFY_CENTER | Graphics.TEXT_JUSTIFY_VCENTER" color="Graphics.COLOR_WHITE">
        <fonts>
            <font>Graphics.FONT_NUMBER_HOT</font>
            <font>Graphics.FONT_NUMBER_MEDIUM</font>
            <font>Graphics.FONT_NUMBER_MILD</font>
        </fonts>
    </text-area>

    And this one works:

     <label id="TimeLabel" x="50%" y="65%"  font="Graphics.FONT_NUMBER_MEDIUM" justification="Graphics.TEXT_JUSTIFY_CENTER" color="Graphics.COLOR_WHITE" background="Graphics.COLOR_TRANSPARENT"/>

    Nothing else was changed in the code. 

  • over 1 year ago

    An app crash like this is typically up to the developer to debug. If you can find something that appears to definitively be a CIQ bug or a problem that's specifically only happening on a certain product, provide example code and reproduction steps, and we'll investigate further.

  • over 1 year ago in reply to Fsallstrom

    You probably use TextArea directly or by layout and it requires 3.1.0. The old device doesn't have it.