Vertical/Portrait UI layout

[crazy-hair]

Just to get this out of the way: I know this is a huge ask and I don't want it to seem like I expect it to happen, but was mainly just curious how feasible it was.

Now that we have that out of the way, the question is: would it be possible to get a vertical UI which would allow for two things: way better viewing angles (looking at the screen in landscape can hurt your eyes sometimes) and also handheld battery-powered iPhone-4-size-and-style devices that you can operate with one hand and take between your desk and your printer. I plan on designing a case that has pogo pins and have docks both attached to the printer and on my desk so I can just grab it and go, and am trying to determine which orientation would work better. (sidenote, wonder if [in this situation] it would be possible to switch orientations by pulling a GPIO pin to ground or the like, allowing for the screen to be horizontal while docked and vertical while handheld).

Thanks for your time and sorry for my ramblings!

[suchmememanyskill]

It would essentially mean rewriting all ui code. I have considered it before but it requires essentially if-else-ing all positional data :(

Needless to say, i didn't want to make the codebase more of a mess than it already was and invest time for a feature i'll probably never use, as i made horizontal mounts for my printer

[suchmememanyskill]

Ever since the UI rewrite the UI is a lot more responsive, so i thought i'd give this a go (see the experimental-vertical-ui branch, and the smartscreen driver). It sort of works but i'm most certainly not happy with the result

[crazy-hair]

Wow! Didn't expect any follow up to this, this is great. Is the new driver currently set up in any of the PIO environments? When I build using the regular ENV it throws the "old driver doesn't support vertical" error, and when I compile with the smartdisplay ENV it just displays static. Is there additional configuration I have to go through? Sorry, I'm not too versed in PIO

[suchmememanyskill]

You may have to use another configuration from https://github.com/rzeldent/platformio-espressif32-sunton/tree/main depending on what model of screen that you have. The current smartdisplay .json in the boards folder is the v3 (microb + usbc), which may not work with the v2/v1 (usbc, microb, respectively). You do have to transplant some options from the existing smartdisplay json as there's options to configure cyd-klipper related stuff.

Also half the ui is not working as expected, probably not worth using

[suchmememanyskill]

@CrazyHairGuy got bored and was unhappy with the first implementation.

Second implementation is on the dev branch. Activate it by replacing the following text in platformio.ini

[env:esp32-3248S035C-smartdisplay]
board = esp32-3248S035C-smartdisplay
build_flags = 
	-DLV_CONF_PATH="../../../../src/conf/lv_conf.h"
	-DCYD_SCREEN_VERTICAL=1
	-DTOUCH_SWAP_XY=false
	
[env:esp32-2432S028R-smartdisplay]
board = esp32-2432S028R-smartdisplay
build_flags = 
	-DLV_CONF_PATH="../../../../src/conf/lv_conf.h"
	-DCYD_SCREEN_VERTICAL=1
	-DCYD_SCREEN_DISABLE_TOUCH_CALIBRATION=1
	-DTOUCH_SWAP_XY=false

less stuff is broken than first :)

[suchmememanyskill]

Just making sure, your board works using the v2 driver in the demo app? Or do you mean works with v3 in the demo app?

[crazy-hair]

It works with the V3 driver in the demo.

[suchmememanyskill]

@CrazyHairGuy i just pushed another commit to dev adding the other 2 versions of the 2.8 inch resistive model. I don't get any compile errors on my side. Give it a shot

[suchmememanyskill]

It works with the V3 driver in the demo.

Oh that's very strange. Also if you downgrade the demo to v2.0.5?

[crazy-hair]

Yep, demo compiled at version 2.0.5.

[suchmememanyskill]

@crazy-hair do you by chance have a 3.5" capacitive display? I've done a port of the vertical UI to that screen and will probably release that too as it actually looks decent. Currently available in the dev branch

[crazy-hair]

I actually have one on order from AliExpress, but it probably won't be here for a few weeks (AliExpress shipping seems to have gotten worse in the past few months?). I'd be glad to test it out once I get it though.

[crazy-hair]

3.5" display arrived, flashed the vertical config from the web installer. Gotta say, this is a much better experience than the 2.8r display. Especially with the temp graph and printer list having more room on the display to eliminate some scrolling.