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The keyboard can now be dragged around the screen to move around text inputs, making the Shape Cutter app easier to use.
The keyboard can be converted into a smaller number pad with the push of a button, to take up less space on the screen, and make it easier to enter dimensions.
New platform upgrade will fix the issues that some users were seeing with:
Greyed out/flashing text
Raspberry Pi rainbow screen on splash
These are the more technical changes that we have put into this release. While they are important for improving SmartBench, there’s definitely some programming jargon in this section!
The way that screens and widgets are dimensioned has now been standardised, so that the software will scale to different sized screens.
To support this, we also have:
New scaling_utils module to assist in scaling of GUI geometry
New popup modules, including custom_popups.py, popups.py, and popup_manager.py for handling scaling of popups
Screen manager now sits within a box layout, in order to handle differences in aspect ratios
Print statements converted into python 3 friendly code
Tabbing standardised
Black formatting applied throughout GUI modules
Extension of visual_screen_tests module to cover more tests
Addition of info_popups_test module to cover testing popups
Initial development of DWT feature
GRBL monitor added to ZHQC jig
Git tag: v2.8.0
Official release name: “I’m ready, now”
Git commit: cce15b5
Benji Pestell is the author of this solution
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