battery low alert

[tehn]

presently there is no alert if battery is very low.

perhaps we add a screen overlay when battery is below a threshold to alert the user.

[neauoire]

I'd love to try this one, is there already a class that is allowed to draw over the currently running library?

[tehn]

the screen library is lua-managed here: https://github.com/monome/norns/blob/master/lua/core/screen.lua

the c bindings are the s_etc() functions.

scripts call screen.etc() which forwards the calls.

menu.lua manages PLAY vs. MENU mode. the script's redraw() is saved and redirected when toggling into MENU. https://github.com/monome/norns/blob/master/lua/core/menu.lua#L170

basically for a battery alert it seems reasonable to redefine screen.update() when the battery level drops below a certain level... with an overlay alert. it should be restored to normal when battery level is fine.

battery level callback is here: https://github.com/monome/norns/blob/master/lua/core/norns.lua#L39

welcome to the tangled mess which is the menu system (would love to rewrite it from scratch)

[neauoire]

I can't manage to preserve what is underneath, what I am trying to do is create a :modal() method that will allow the lua core to write messages over the user's running script without completely overriding it. As soon as I redefine update(), it clears it. Any idea?

[tehn]

that's peculiar. i'll have to investigate the deeper workings.