The bar repainted itself whole every second. It now compares each field against what
it last painted, adds seconds and a memory percentage, and keys the cache on
gui.getRotation() and ui.themeName so rotation and theme changes still repaint it.
Invalidation lives entirely in Lua; the firmware's push flag and gfx/statusbar.h are gone.
Bindings follow getName/setName/isName, persisted preferences move from sys to a settings
table, and gui.setRotation takes degrees like settings does. A bar that dies mid-run now
keeps its rows reserved rather than silently resizing the running app.
The bar is host-owned chrome: the firmware clips apps into a viewport below
it, so no app can paint over it, while /lib/statusbar.lua owns the height,
repaint interval and painting. gui.fullscreen() lets touch calibration take
the physical panel back.
Launcher and settings become grids of square cards (3 across landscape, 2
portrait) via the new gui.setTextSize, ui.label and ui.cardSide. The one
function on the `app` table moves to sys.setTickInterval, alongside the new
sys.appName the bar needs.
A magic global that the runtime reads once at startup could not be changed later, gave
no feedback when misspelled, and was a second spelling of a mechanism the sibling
firmware already had. app.setTickInterval(ms) clamps to 33..3600000, takes 0 to stop,
and errors when on_tick() is not defined -- by the time init() runs the chunk body has
finished, so a missing callback is a typo rather than a race.
Also drops the code comments pointing at the other repo. Where the two APIs agree or
differ belongs in docs/lua-api-parity.md; a comment beside a constant explaining that
another firmware picked the same number is noise a reader here cannot act on.
The launcher clock read UTC and sat next to the title because the toolkit could only
stack children from the start of an axis. justify adds the CSS main-axis modes that
had a caller -- start, end, center, between -- so a header keeps its title left and
its clock right without any app doing arithmetic.
Timezones are stored as POSIX TZ rules rather than offsets, so newlib applies DST
changeovers and os.date() in Lua reports local time with no binding of its own.
/lib/timezones.lua is only the picker list: a zone missing from it still works if its
rule is written into settings, the same split themes already use.
settings_calibration.lua now finds rows by label. Adding the timezone row shifted
every hardcoded y coordinate in it, which is the failure that had been predicted and
would have silently retargeted taps at the wrong control.
Nothing in this firmware ever mounted internal flash storage: apps, lib, settings and
themes all live on the SD card. The Arduino default table still reserved 1408K for
spiffs, so a custom table hands that to the OTA slots instead, taking each from 1280K
to 1984K. The 64K tail the slots cannot use goes to coredump, which otherwise logs a
missing-partition error on every boot. Changing the table shifts app0, so the next
flash must be a full one.
The ESP32 has no battery-backed clock, so time is 1970 on every power-up. net.cpp
seeds it from the build timestamp -- the device cannot predate its own firmware, and
certificate validity checks need a plausible clock before SNTP can answer -- then
starts SNTP on each join and latches a synced flag from the notification callback.
sntp_get_sync_status() only reports COMPLETED briefly before resetting for the next
cycle, so polling it would make the clock flap.
sys.clockSynced() is the only new binding a clock UI needs; Lua's os.date() already
reads the same system clock. The launcher shows it, in UTC for now.
lua_app.cpp had grown to 701 lines holding every binding, the module loader and the
app lifecycle, so new bindings landed wherever the cursor was. Each Lua table now has
its own file under bindings/, and the app is recovered from the lua_State's extra
space instead of a file-static, so a second state cannot reach the wrong app.
Three tests each redeclared the binding surface, which broke twice this session when
a binding changed; test/fake_device.lua is now the single stub. `make test` runs all
four suites and pins Lua 5.4, matching the vendored interpreter rather than the 5.2
the tests had silently been using.
evan