275: Saturday 15th November 2014

The last couple of evenings I have spent a few hours exploring the touch screen functions of the screen I am using for the battery monitoring. It was reasonably easy to set up as an intelligent display. The 4D workshop tool set contains widgets that can be designed on a WYSIWYG screen then the object code can be generated and pasted into the main code at the cursor from a single button click. I have added large digits to the display for showing the voltage of one battery. The touch screen functions are really simple to use.

 

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In Spectrum Mode:

• 10 bar spectrum display shows the 10 battery voltages
• 1 bar display for total voltage ( divided by ten to use the same scale )
• 3 digit display shows the total voltage
• Touch the spectrum on the screen to access the Single Battery Mode

In Single Battery Mode:

• Large 3 digit display shows an individual battery voltage
• 1 bar display for total voltage ( divided by ten to use the same scale )
• 3 digit display shows the total voltage
• 3 digit display shows the battery number on the bottom right of the screen
• Touch to the left of the large digits to reduce the battery number
• Touch to the right of the large digits to increase the battery number
• Touch the bar display on the left to access the Spectrum Mode

In the video I touched the left of the screen whilst saying "touch the right of the screen", oops. Simple mistake!