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I saw metal_dent[m] has made a good progress in T1162. I think we both cannot do the select the same project/idea for GSOC. Is there a way by which both of us would be able to participate? I'm also doing T1162

if you are creative, you can also suggest your own idea as T727, but it has to be a pretty good and solid suggestion

I am getting a black image when I replaced the `apertus_logo` struct with a new struct called `apertus_text`(I converted one of the disected image to png and then to c source header)

good day

@Bandit1983 here's what I did

what format does the data have?

by the way, just exporting from GIMP won't work usually, as the data has to be in RGB565 format, don't know if GIMP supports it directly, used online converter to create the image back then

without RLE compression of course, it has to be plain, as the data will be converted to data blob for the PIC32(!)

then please look at my other questions, as it's otherwise hard to guess what was done and why the image turns black

quick reboot, linux update requires it

the width and heights are right

What options do i need to check?

of course! corona is spreading through email and phone! just joking!

rajdeep: it's the task of the student to show how to solve the task, it's the reason we make challenge tasks to select the best students

ofc not 😂, just wanted to confirm!

but usually students don't travel for gsoc, so the possibility is rather low

btw do apertus hold any gathering/conference for GSoC students?

but if you are near vienna you could use apertus hub

this summer i might go to France so can visit!

ohh! let's hope that doesn't happen

ohoo, in India there's no shutdown but my college has been suspended for a while

What color format is supported? When I select RGB565, i'm only getting bin files instead of c source header files

in the project description in "Goals" section, the last point is "..." so does that mean you'll add later or we have to suggest?

if you have good ideas, then you can extend your code or comment on the task in the lab

yes

also couldn't find much activities on his github account, but a week ago he created new repos

https://littlevgl.com/image-to-c-array

*created

no worries, you and Bertl are quite helpful :)

rajdeep: you could also try imagemagick, as i'm currently searching the online tool i'Ve used, gimp provides proper results also, but i don't like that it doesn't use HEX, but equivalent ascii or so, e.g. \377 or \011%

imagemagick would be preferable for repeatable results

just don't forget about 1-bit depth, as it's the goal of the task and DrawImage() uses full colour, so the data is quite big and clutters up the flash memory

Im switching to imagemagick again

I think something is wrong

but after the converting, I had put the text into online character counter, there it shows that there are only 1657 ","(commas)

rajdeep: sounds about right

don't forget / 2

212 * 61 * 2 is the raw value for rgb565, as the reference

So I should expect 25864 commas?

http://www.multipole.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?t=14391

and depth is 16

yes, rgb565 is depth 16, like 2 bytes, like 5 + 6 + 5 = 16 / 8 = 2 bytes

off for now ... bbl

metal_dent[m]: response to the last question on github is yes, let me copy my example for you, have started to add similar test for rectangle drawing, which creates it from 4 lines

using // just for formwatting, otherwise it would concatenate the lines automatically

and 0x7 in the array is?

painter.DrawRectangle(1, 1, 5, 5, 0x7);

okay!

memset is necessary as array tends to have some junk data in it when it's freshly created, which is normal case when the application is not built for debugging, so all the values ahve to be zeroed

okay, will do this!

i mean the framebuffer and memset, something like SetupFramebuffer(...)

I'm not sure where the problem lies, the image header or because i'm using DrawImage()

you can also take 2 bytes and check if the value corresponds to right colour

it's still a bit off, if you are drawing the icon with certain colour, then the expected output is the content of framebuffer you want to test against

at the end you want to verify that it draws correctly, so you need to know the data which goes in and which you expect to land in the framebuffer

But as the method adds the color if bit is 1 so does it matter if I use logo data or artificial input?

look at the example of DrawRectangle() i'Ve posted before, create small framebuffer, like 16x16, create input data with 2x2 and expected output array, to compare against framebuffer

usually the approach is test-first, but we don't want to make the life more difficult for now

okay!

the problem wasn't the code, it was the input image I was taking 😅, I changed the input image to the apertus ring and the test passed!

tests should always be independent of the application data

se6ast1an: building cushion fort to protect from corona virus?

sorry, back to serious discussion, what is the target?

Surface treatment utilizing corona technology

shouldn't be much different from the usual cushioning

done only a bit of such things for the motorcycle seat some years ago, when it had to be slimmed down

right, thanks, will check

maybe you know it, it's plastic which melts holds like glue when ironed over

I am more looking to understand an industrial process rather than a DIY approach

also some forming is involved -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDh-1qEFqQk

BAndiT1983: it's done, can you please check?

or is it molded in one go?

se6ast1an: usually it's molded and "glued" together through heat, you can see the seam at the bottom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXBGFkaQLes

will test your code tomorrow, as today i have to finish something else and of course work awaits tomorrow (at least till maybe home office is ordered because of corona outbreak)

very good work so far

> for more straight formatting oyu could change the color value to something like 0x9, then output array would also have 0x0, then it would be easier to read

but this are small things and i will check on them tomorrow

okay, thank you :)

ashok_singh[m]: will try to do it tomorrow also, as i am doing something different at the moment

<BAndiT1983 "ashok_singh: will try to do it t"> Okay it will be fine.

wrong direction test is still not necessary, it was done for older code and will possibly removed later or kept to ensure no performance impact

Actually I squash commits for better review.

this is usually preferable when merging branches, but for feature development it's not that good, as it omits what was done and where possible problems came in, speaking out of experience in a bigger dev team

Is there any chance that you guys thinking to remove push knob functionality in newer version of remote as it's not there in visualizer?

just because the knob is not attached again in the visualizer, it was working in former version, does not mean that we will remove it, nobody just had time to continue the development at full speed yet as the project is done mostly in spare time and everybody has their main job besides apertus

12 buttons and clickable(!) knob for now, second knob will be removed as the purpose was not found, other buttons are not interesting for the control currently

Hello Bertl, I have an inquiry regarding the eMMC task.

to send raw video data from the DDR memory via the 6 LVDS pairs

So, is this right?