""" WelcomeScreen: A simple library providing a customizable welcome screen fading over an LCD Copyright (C) 2024 Benjamin Burkhardt This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . """ from time import sleep class WelcomeScreen: # __init__() - the constructor # lcd: an object of I2C_LCD (from the PCF8574T library - https://git.privacynerd.de/BlueFox/micropython-libraries/src/branch/main/PCF8574T) # --- # interrupt_pins: a list containing machine.Pin objects exclusively (but if you give these you can still turn interrupting off # via a parameter in the show method (see below!) # --- # subtitle: the text shown below the cycling text (e.g. the device's name, ...) (Lorem ipsum. by default) # --- # starting_msg: the text shown while cycling (default: Starting...) # --- # started_msg: the text shown while cycling (default: Started!) def __init__(self, lcd, interrupt_pins=None, subtitle="Lorem ipsum.", starting_msg="Starting...", started_msg="Started!"): self.lcd = lcd self.columns = self.lcd.num_columns self.lines = self.lcd.num_lines self.interrupt_pins = interrupt_pins self.subtitle = subtitle self.starting_msg = starting_msg self.started_msg = started_msg # show() - Display the actual message # --- # cycles says how often the Starting text goes through # --- # wait_after_cycles is a number in seconds (can be float) defining how long to wait before returning OR # if fading out is activated, the time to wait between end of the cycling animation and the fade out animation # --- # fade_down is a dict with following keys: # - "enabled" - REQUIRED - wether fading is enabled (default: true) # - "wait_between" - OPTIONAL - the time in seconds to wait between each line fade # - "wait_after" - OPTIONAL - the time in seconds to wait after the fade out # --- # interruptable influences wether the program can be interrupted by pins in the self.interrupt_pins list # if this list is empty, even when interruptable is set to true, nothing will be able to interrupt! def show(self, cycles=1, wait_after_cycles=1, fade_down={"enabled": True}, interruptable=True): if cycles < 1: cycles = 1 padding = " " * self.columns # as much spaces as padding as one display line is long padding_hyphen = "-" * self.columns # as much hyphens as padding as one display line is long # mechanism for centering on a 4*20 display y_offset = 0 if self.lines == 4: y_offset = 1 # also clear the top and bottom with ---- self.lcd.move_to(0,0) self.lcd.putstr(padding_hyphen) self.lcd.move_to(0,4) self.lcd.putstr(padding_hyphen) # get the current pin values (only if there are pins specified) (when something changes, the interrupt happens and the cycle stops) break_flag = False if self.interrupt_pins: pin_values = [] for p in self.interrupt_pins: pin_values.append(p.value()) # cycle the text 'cycles' times and listen for changes on interrupt pins (if any given) for i in range(cycles): line1 = padding + self.starting_msg + padding line2 = self.subtitle.center(self.columns) for i in range(self.columns + len(self.starting_msg)): self.lcd.move_to(0,y_offset) self.lcd.putstr(line1[0:self.columns]) self.lcd.move_to(0,y_offset+1) self.lcd.putstr(line2[0:self.columns]) line1 = line1[1:] if self.interrupt_pins: for i, p in enumerate(self.interrupt_pins): if pin_values[i] != p.value(): break_flag = True if break_flag: break if break_flag: break self.lcd.move_to(0,y_offset) self.lcd.putstr(self.started_msg.center(16)) sleep(wait_after_cycles) # now fade down if enabled via the params if fade_down["enabled"]: # get all the waiting times if "wait_between" in fade_down.keys(): wait_between = fade_down["wait_between"] else: wait_between = 0.1 if "wait_after" in fade_down.keys(): wait_after = fade_down["wait_after"] else: wait_after = 0.3 if self.lines == 4: old_display = padding_hyphen + self.started_msg.center(16) + self.subtitle.center(self.columns) + padding_hyphen else: old_display = self.started_msg.center(16) + self.subtitle.center(self.columns) self.lcd.move_to(0,0) # move to the start of the lcd while old_display != "": old_display = old_display[:-self.columns] lines_before = " " * (self.columns*self.lines-len(old_display)) self.lcd.putstr(lines_before + old_display) sleep(wait_between) sleep(wait_after)