Screens elimination

Armoured · Post by **Armoured** » April 17th, 2009, 3:08 pm

How I can delete a screen?
I have defined a screen in the configuration pannel and now I want delete it.

Post by **mattcro** » April 17th, 2009, 3:15 pm

You can't actually delete a screen. You can clear the contents of the lines on that screen, or uncheck the "Enabled" checkbox to prevent it being displayed.

You always have 20 screens to play with, but you can leave spare screens disabled to prevent them being used/displayed.

Armoured · Post by **Armoured** » April 17th, 2009, 3:31 pm

[quote="mattcro"]You can't actually delete a screen. You can clear the contents of the lines on that screen, or uncheck the "Enabled" checkbox to prevent it being displayed.

You always have 20 screens to play with, but you can leave spare screens disabled to prevent them being used/displayed.[/quote

Add an option to delete. I don't like to switch (in the configuration) trough unnecessary screens

Post by **caesar** » April 19th, 2009, 8:51 pm

LCDSmartie is open source, you can get it here and modify it to your liking.
http://sourceforge.net/scm/?type=cvs&group_id=122330

You can bring your additions to the main build so they get incorporated into the next version

Happy coding!

Post by **mattcro** » April 20th, 2009, 9:51 am

Being able to delete screens could get messy... Smartie allows you to use actions to jump to specific screens by number. Deleting a screen would change the numbering (everything would get shuffled up), so the delete function must take account of all sorts of things like this.

You also then need an option to add a new screen. Perhaps a better option is to have a drop-down list box instead of the screen select spin control, so you can jump directly to a specific screen in the config window. You'd have to remember the screen number, unless a brief description for each screen could be added...

I agree that flicking through several unused/inactive screens in the config window is a bit of a hassle though. I tend to arrange all the active screens in the lowest numbered screens so that I have a solid block of screens, e.g. screens 1-6 used with no gaps.

Post by **caesar** » April 20th, 2009, 5:23 pm

You can enter a number in that box to jump directly to a specific screen.

A drop-down list should be possible to implement though.

Post by **mattcro** » April 21st, 2009, 9:27 am

Ah, yes, I had forgotten about typing into the box (have used it myself in the past).

If we have a drop-down list, it would be handy to be able to give screens a name to make it easier to find them quickly, e.g. "winamp", "volume", "network"...