Three interaction inconsistencies found while auditing the favourites work,
all of the same shape: the same gesture meaning different things depending
on which screen you were on.
Value rows in popup menus. Rows like "Notif: ON" or "Sort: Dist" show a
value the user steps through with LEFT/RIGHT, but Enter treated them as
ordinary menu picks and closed the popup, so changing two of them meant
reopening the menu in between. Trail's settings submenu was the lone
exception, working around it by rebuilding and re-selecting after each
Enter. PopupMenu now knows the difference: addValueItem() marks a row, and
Enter on it returns the new VALUE_NEXT instead of SELECTED, leaving the
menu open. Only Back closes a menu now. Applied to the Messages
contact/room/channel menus, Nodes, the Ringtone editor and Trail, which
drops its reopenSettingsAt() workaround. The LEFT/RIGHT cycling bodies
moved into one helper per menu, since Enter and RIGHT now share them.
Nodes' Fav row was the worst case: LEFT/RIGHT did nothing there at all, so
the only way to toggle a favourite was an Enter that dismissed the menu on
every flip. Its label moved to a member buffer (as the Pin row already had)
so it can be retitled in place.
Settings rows Auto-off, Low battery, GPS pwr and Battery ignored Enter,
though their options wrap exactly like the melody/keyboard/clock rows
beside them, where Enter has always stepped forward. They accept it now.
Rows that ramp between fixed ends (Brightness, Volume, TX Pwr, Timezone,
SF/BW/CR) stay LEFT/RIGHT-only -- there is nothing to wrap to.
Hold Enter no longer doubles as Back. It quietly meant "go back" on Tools,
Locator, Live Share, Repeater, Bot, Auto-Advert, GPIO, Compass, the
Dashboard config and the Messages navigate view, while elsewhere the same
long press opens a context menu. It now only ever opens a menu, or does
nothing where there is none. Same for dismissing an open popup, which it
used to do. Checked that this strands nobody: every board that can reach
these screens has a real Back key (back_btn on joystick boards, Esc on
CardKB/TCA8418/T-Deck). Single-button boards produce no KEY_ENTER at all,
so they never leave the home pages in the first place.
Selecting a row whose ellipsized text overflows now animates a "swing"
marquee: holds at the start, scrolls to reveal the full tail, holds
there, then scrolls back and repeats. Unselected/non-overflowing text
is unchanged (still a static "..."). E-ink gets slower, coarser steps
(fewer, cheaper partial refreshes) than OLED; unchanged frames are
already skipped by the display's CRC diff, so idle holds are free.
Wired into every screen with a selectable row: home favourites, DM/
channel lists and message bodies, Settings, popup menus, Bot, Admin,
Nearby, Waypoints, Locator, Live Share, and the alarm screen.
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Every drawList/AccordionList row opened with the same hand-written
display.drawSelectionRow(0, y-1, width-reserve, lineStep-1, sel) line —
14 copies of the same geometry and magic offsets. Add a drawRowSelection(d,
y, sel, reserve) helper in icons.h next to drawList and route the canonical
sites through it (Bot/LiveShare/Locator/Repeater/Settings/Tools/Nearby/
QuickMsg/Waypoints).
Rows that intentionally differ (full-width DashboardConfig/QuickMsg, the
keyboard/ringtone grids) keep their explicit drawSelectionRow() call — the
helper is opt-in rather than baked into drawList, so legitimate variants
aren't forced into one geometry. Framework doc updated to match.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The "_dirty bool, then if (_dirty) the_mesh.savePrefs() on exit" pattern was
duplicated across 9 screens with subtle divergence: some cleared the flag
after saving, some left it set and relied on onShow() to reset. Replace all
12 exit sites with a single _task->savePrefsIfDirty(flag) helper that saves
once only if dirty and always clears the flag, so the "did we touch flash?"
answer lives in one place and the reset is consistent.
Edit sites still mark the flag manually (inherent to change tracking); only
the persist-on-exit boilerplate is centralised.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace the ad-hoc enter()/markClean() entry methods (which lived outside
the UIScreen interface and were invoked via casts from each gotoX) with a
virtual onShow() lifecycle hook called centrally by setCurrScreen().
This removes the "forgot to call enter() in a new navigator" footgun and
the unchecked cast smell: 12 navigators collapse to one-line
setCurrScreen(x) calls, and override enforces signature match. Two entries
that carry a parameter/variant keep an explicit typed call after
setCurrScreen(): RingtoneEditor::selectSlot(slot) and TrailScreen::showMapView().
Behaviour-preserving: only screens that previously had enter() get an
onShow() override; Splash/Home/QuickMsg/Diag keep no reset as before.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Squash merge of feat/location-beacon-alerts-autopause (v1.21).
Features:
- Live Location Sharing — broadcast position as movement-gated [LOC]
messages to a channel or contact; live shares show as map pins with
distance/bearing in Nearby Nodes and a status-bar indicator. [LOC] is
parsed in DMs, channel messages and room messages; DM shares name the
sender.
- Locator (geofence) — arm a geofence around a saved waypoint or a person
(live [LOC] or last-known position), alert on arrive/leave or near/far,
with an optional homing beeper (gated to arrive/both modes). Arm from
Tools > Locator, Nearby Nodes, or Waypoints; target picker lists
favourites first, clearable via a "None" entry. Active target is drawn
as a flag on the map.
- One active target shared across Locator / Navigate / Map via a single
resolver (resolvePersonPos / activeTargetPos) that prefers a live
[LOC] share over the last-advertised GPS fix.
- Follow live contacts — Navigate to a live-sharing contact follows them
as they move and adds an ETA line; quick-share your own position from
the Map.
- Map & status-bar upgrades — home mini-map gets a north marker, scale
tick, and a connected trail line (was disconnected dots); status line
shows tracked-node count, an arrow + distance to the active Locator/Nav
target (falling back to the nearest live-tracked contact); GPS fix icon
in the top status bar, shown only on GPS boards with GPS enabled.
- Trail auto-pause — recording freezes on stops (banking elapsed time,
breaking the map line across the idle gap) and resumes on movement
without ending the session.
- Streaming trail simplification — GPS points are simplified in-stream
via a fixed-corridor (Reumann-Witkam) pass tuned for fidelity: straight
runs collapse to their endpoints, curves stay bounded to the Min-dist
tolerance, so the 512-point buffer covers a far longer route than a
flat point budget would suggest.
- Collapsible Tools (Location / Comms / System sections, fold-in-place
like Settings) and page-indicator icons on the home carousel.
- Waypoint coordinate editor — add a waypoint by scroll-editing lat/lon
digit by digit.
Fixes:
- Critical: low-heap hang and contact loss on RAM-tight builds. Halved
message-history scrollback rings (recovering ~14 KB free heap) and
made contacts/channels/prefs persistence atomic (temp file + rename),
so an interrupted save can no longer corrupt or wipe the store.
- Serial.write() bounded so a stalled USB host can't hang the device.
- Nearby Nodes: live [LOC] senders respect the type filter, sort by
shared position, and the list refreshes so live shares bubble up.
- Map: live contacts are labelled before waypoints.
- GPS status icon hidden when GPS is off in Settings.
- Splash screen no longer truncates a pre-release tag's own dash (e.g.
v1.21-rc1) when stripping the build's commit-hash suffix.
- Null-guarded the Locator target picker; clamped loc-share channel
index on load.
Under the hood:
- -Os size optimisation on the e-ink and GAT562 30S solo envs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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