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Has anybody made one for the Nextion 5/Enhanced running KD8CEC 1.2?
The GitHub "5" appears to be a 2.8(?). (Upper left corner small image)
Thanks
Mark
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BTW:
My respect to anybody that has undertaken this effort.? This GUI builder has got to be one of the most basic I have seen in many years. The lack of any internal resizing makes things difficult. Doesn't help that after you replace the image with the larger one, you need to tell the builder that the image is harder and expand it...? And no "anchors"/geometry management means that after you resize all the images, you then need to resize the buttons, etc. and replace them. Yecch....
Mark
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Yes it’s not friendly when it comes to resizing, and it’s even worse when there’s graphs involved. I have a 5” setup that I’ve been working on keeping it as original as I can from the original KD8CEC design. I will have it available soon.?
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On May 21, 2019, at 9:50 PM, Mark Hatch < mark2382@...> wrote: BTW:
My respect to anybody that has undertaken this effort.? This GUI builder has got to be one of the most basic I have seen in many years. The lack of any internal resizing makes things difficult. Doesn't help that after you replace the image with the larger one, you need to tell the builder that the image is harder and expand it...? And no "anchors"/geometry management means that after you resize all the images, you then need to resize the buttons, etc. and replace them. Yecch....
Mark
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Joe,
Thanks! Looking forward to it. Be happy to beta test it when you feel its ready,
Were you able to get the original art work from KD8CEC? Bet that would make you work easier....
73
Mark
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I am attaching the HMI file. This is the version that included the graph in the main screen if you use the stand alone analyzer which includes the CW decoder. I haven’t stretched the CW decoder across the screen yet, didn’t figure it out yet but everything else is pretty much intact. All pages have been reworked but I didn’t redo the graphics for the dsp menu, I just resized the 480x240 to 800x480. ? Joe KD2NFC ? Sent from for Windows 10 ?
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From: Mark HatchSent: Tuesday, May 21, 2019 10:17 PM To: [email protected]Subject: Re: [BITX20] Nextion 5/Enhanced for KD8CEC 1.2? ? Joe,
Thanks! Looking forward to it. Be happy to beta test it when you feel its ready,
Were you able to get the original art work from KD8CEC? Bet that would make you work easier....
73
Mark
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Also I think the Spectrum Analyzer page needs more work actually even the band analyzer. I may have been able to adjust their position and lengths of the analyzer graphs but the slider does not seem to work right with the scanned range. ?
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On May 22, 2019, at 1:55 AM, Joe Puma via Groups.Io < kd2nfc@...> wrote: I am attaching the HMI file. This is the version that included the graph in the main screen if you use the stand alone analyzer which includes the CW decoder. I haven’t stretched the CW decoder across the screen yet, didn’t figure it out yet but everything else is pretty much intact. All pages have been reworked but I didn’t redo the graphics for the dsp menu, I just resized the 480x240 to 800x480. ? Joe KD2NFC ? Sent from for Windows 10 ? ? Joe,
Thanks! Looking forward to it. Be happy to beta test it when you feel its ready,
Were you able to get the original art work from KD8CEC? Bet that would make you work easier....
73
Mark
AJ6CU
<uBITX 5inch KD2NFC-v31.HMI>
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Joe,
Got a test bed working. (Probably spend a couple hours moving to a new case so that I don't accidentally short something....) Looks good on my enhanced 5.0. Takes longer to do the update, but I suspect that is related to the larger bit maps that were being transferred (4x the bits...)
I am happy you rotated that screen. It was a real pia to disassemble my ubitx to update the screen.
So the area that needs work is the spectrum analyzer? Although I haven't built that yet, looks like shouldn't take long to build. Probably have everything set up to go over the weekend. Will ping you before starting to avoid duplicating any work you have done in the meantime.
73
Mark
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Joe,
Got the two screens running, 3.2 + 5 and standalone signal an analyzer. Trying to tackle something simple at first - When the spectrum is displayed on home page, the maximum frequency is not being displayed.
Played with color and position, but no go.? Going to look for foreground/background options net.
Have you made any changes since you last posted the file above?? I do see the spectrum issue. The space for the spectrum has been expanded, but the data that the main program is dumping only fills a portion of that space. Not sure if it is an application issue (only so much data) or that the output display field has not been expanded. Will take a look at that next.
73
Mark
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When you say maximum frequency, do you mean ?the numbers in the upper left of the spectrum screen? ?I turned that off. I can show you where I commented it out. And maybe other things like color and positions. Let me put some notes together. ?I haven’t made any changes so far.?
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On May 29, 2019, at 11:24 AM, Mark Hatch < mark2382@...> wrote: Joe,
Got the two screens running, 3.2 + 5 and standalone signal an analyzer. Trying to tackle something simple at first - When the spectrum is displayed on home page, the maximum frequency is not being displayed.
Played with color and position, but no go.? Going to look for foreground/background options net.
Have you made any changes since you last posted the file above?? I do see the spectrum issue. The space for the spectrum has been expanded, but the data that the main program is dumping only fills a portion of that space. Not sure if it is an application issue (only so much data) or that the output display field has not been expanded. Will take a look at that next.
73
Mark
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Joe,
Thanks, obviously enough of a newbie i didn't recognize a comment. :-) Perhaps I need to go thru the tutorial before i do any damage. ...
73
Mark
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Joe,
I think I found where you commented out the max Frequency.? In the pre-initialize events "vis tDecode1,0" . changed that to vis tDecode,1 but had no impact....
Was there some reason you decided not to display the frequency?
Mark
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Remove the // in the top entry that start with //xstr
I think the second like was already commented out.?
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On May 29, 2019, at 12:47 PM, Mark Hatch < mark2382@...> wrote: Joe,
I think I found where you commented out the max Frequency.? In the pre-initialize events "vis tDecode1,0" . changed that to vis tDecode,1 but had no impact....
Was there some reason you decided not to display the frequency?
Mark
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Joe,
Ok, definitely need to invest in that tutorial...? ?One last question, that vis tDecode1,0 was irrelevant?
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Mark
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Yes I would set that back to what it was. It would be great if Ian CEC would come to our rescue on some of these tasks but he’s busy with more toys for us to play with. ?
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Ok, definitely need to invest in that tutorial...? ?One last question, that vis tDecode1,0 was irrelevant?
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Mark
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Joe,
Reset everything from the original, made the one change you suggested and it "worked". Looks like some background color issues and positioning is not right (and perhaps the font is too small).?
Is there a reason why you originally commented it out?
73
Mark
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I didn’t feel like I needed it and yes between stretching the background out which appears to be lines or columns, the frequency text didn’t look too appealing. I suppose you can make the font bigger. The background and the scope data have a weird interlaced relationship with one another if you know what I mean.?
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On May 29, 2019, at 4:21 PM, Mark Hatch < mark2382@...> wrote: Joe,
Reset everything from the original, made the one change you suggested and it "worked". Looks like some background color issues and positioning is not right (and perhaps the font is too small).?
Is there a reason why you originally commented it out?
73
Mark
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Joe, If you change the line:
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xstr 5,350,90,18,0,WHITE,10565,0,1,1,sTemp0.txt
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to: xstr 20,365,90,22,2,sys1,7,0,1,1,sTemp0.txt You get rid of the gray background and the text field is positioned correctly. There are still a couple problems: 1. The spectrum has a gap on the far right. It is just too small horizontally for the scale of the spectrum box. 2. The spectrum does not appear to be vertically scaled (same physical height as the 3.2 screen) 3. Cosmetically, there is a gap in the upper left corner of the box that encloses the spectrum. 4. The sample rate of the frequency is probably too fast. Too fix, you have to slow the timer interval way down and then the spectrum lags in its update. Probably just leave it at the existing rate... 5. Not sure whether it is a problem or not, but on the 5" you get definite histrograms on the spectrum while on the 3.2 it looks like a more contiuous graph. Suspect that this is one of those things where having more resolution doesn't help. :-) I am going to spend time on 1-3 and ignore 4-5. Any pointers there would be appreciated. 73 Mark
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More progress... ?Cracked the code on the X axis for the Spectrum. Y axis is next.... 
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Note for future.... Perhaps the new nano would make a difference...
Unfortunately, even though we have a higher resolution screen, cannot get any more data out of the I2Cmeter. Tried doubling FFT and Samplesize and ran out of memory. So larger screens are stuck with same amount of data, no finer resolution possible (unless I make room by disabling the morse code translator) and so the display of the spectrum will be blocky. ?
Wonder if it would be possible to add yet another nano and split the decode and spectrum information? KD8CEC any thoughts?
73
Mark
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Might be worth the time to delete any unused code, comments, etc and recompile. Space is really?a premium at this point.
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