handle rotation in a more elegant way?

[ladyada]

for now this works, if you set the rotation thru the magtag.display you need to recreate the magtag object... or maybe this is fine!

import time
import board
import terminalio
from adafruit_magtag.magtag import MagTag

board.DISPLAY.rotation = 270
magtag = MagTag()

magtag.add_text(
    text_font=terminalio.FONT,
    text_position=(
        magtag.graphics.display.width // 2,
        magtag.graphics.display.height // 2,
    ),
    text_anchor_point=(0.5, 0.5),
    text_scale=3,
)

if magtag.display.rotation in (90, 270):
    magtag.set_text("Hello World")
else:
    magtag.set_text("Hello\nWorld")
while True:
    pass

[makermelissa]

Now that board.DISPLAY is included in Magtag, I plan on removing the display driver init code which isn't being used at this point. Changing board.DISPLAY.rotation should be the same as changing magtag.display.rotation, but perhaps it's not. I'll try some things next week when I start working on factoring out a portal base library. Maybe we need some kind of update function that handles it.

[ladyada]

it is the same but the display buffer uses the old dimensions, we need to update those

[makermelissa]

Ok, then maybe we can make a property that handles this, though that may or may not be a more elegant way.

[ladyada]

with deep sleep this may not be an issue anymore, we'll start over fresh on every run