I need/want to print some labels once on an Adafruit ST7735 display that other wise works well for me, I can print pretty much what I want where I want, text and color is great, and then go fill windows with data as it is updated. Can I print the labels,set a bool for print false or??? and make a do loop to update the data only? and loop forever because I set a flag to bypass the label part of the loop? This is the kind of problem that plagues me about this time every night, can't sleep so I decided to change something around and hit some issues that I can avoid in this manner and later learn how to do it the 'righter' way, That's the wonder of the language for me you never get good at it you just get better... Makes a lot of sense to me, was the way I approached Electronics. Thank You in Advance...
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Print the labels in setup? That is done once only.
Yeah the beginnings of learning for me... constructing a menu... first necessary to print the labels for time... then go and update only the necessary area's used for actual data display. I think I know the answer however it is that likely I'm just too tired. think in loop() I need to print the labels once and set a bool 'done' to true then a do loop while done is true rather than continually repainting the screen. this is ver.001 of a learning experience that will take me through a large part of the hardware of ALL types and my list looks like the table of contents for a large hardware store. First I will make it work on a Mega probably cause I need a lot of ports for I/O for sensors and radio as well as X10 stuff is going into this box and a music center for my music collection... all 90 gigs of muic ultimately, just stereo radio for now. In the next couple of weeks I have that 4D systems 32PT SGC thing to integrate and I am trying to sorta build a 'concept core' to see how and what I can learn... This is probably a third of the time I spend here... reading and learning. It is a Ball to have nothing to do except what you want to...
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