Gadget v0.3

Gadget v0.3

Gameplay Changes & Bugfixes

• Hit dice:
  • Now reset correctly on long rest
  • Are now spendable on short rest, as well as being individually settable
• Fixed needle going to wrong place after long rest with temp hp
• Fixed needle moving wrong way on damage

Visible Changes

• Moved all character data to external SD card
  • Unplugging the SD card resets the system (replug will reload the char select menu)
  • Character 'name' and 'title' are now used, instead of 'title' and 'subtitle'
• Significantly improved rotary dial responsiveness (hw.py switched to hard interrupts)
• Improved Play Screen layout and added background image support (background.2ink)
• Added brightness control for matrix
• Charges can now be reset by long rest AND short rest. Separate with a comma in stats.txt, eg. charge_reset:2=lr,sr
• Added battery monitor
  • Needle now wobbles when battery is low and not charging.
  • New low-battery graphic will display in place of character head.
• Added natty loading and poweroff animations
• At poweroff:
  • Eink progress is now indicated by moving needle.
  • Oled powers off properly, instead of remaining on after program halt.

Invisible Changes

• Renamed UI to HAL
  • ui.py is now hal.py
  • UI() is now HAL()
  • Classes now have a ref to hal instead of to ui
• hal.py:
  • Added more granular way of locking hardware features using ClientRegistrations (CRs) with hal.register() and unregister()
  • Added hal.needle object and wobble() method
• Characters are now verified before showing up on char select screen. Everything on that screen has now already been loaded correctly.
• hw.py
  • Replaced running average battery monitor used by voltage_stable() with hysteresis to better eliminate noise
  • Made _isr_rot() be Viper
• character.py
  • Added timeout before save, to allow multiple changes to aggregrate together
  • Removed show_all_hp()
• menu.py
  • Menus now rely on new CR feature from hal.py, replacing previous parent/child system
  • Combined both matrix menus into one unified menu
  • Added 'prompt' option to SimpleAdjuster, so prompt can be different from name in menu
  • Added absolute adjuster callback to SimpleAdjuster, to complement existing relative one
• common.py
  • Moved menu.py's timeout_watcher into the new DeferredTask class, for wider use