TouchGFX Wish List

Hello,

Thank you very much for your feedback. This has been added to the list of features to add/improve.

Regarding making this post sticky, I do not know so I'll let @Martin KJELDSEN​ answer that part.

/Alexandre

Hey @scottSD​,

Thanks for the feedback. Don't worry about "negativity" =) We want to do better, and you're always very constructive. Just let it all out!

We can only have 3 stickies, but i think the "ideas" thread might deserve some love ... once i find it.

/Martin

One small bug report to contribute:

If TouchGFX designer window is too narrow, Run simulator e.g buttons will overlap with Texts, Config buttons, rendering them unclickable. This happens to me when using laptop screen and splitting the screen in 2 windows.

This could be easily fixed, by throwing the buttons in 2nd row if they overlap.

But anyway, TouchGFX is surprisingly mature and very good quality, extremely happy with it!

Here is another...

It would be nice if there was some way to copy elements from one instance of TouchGFX to another (from one project to another). I realize this comes with challenges because of the way "generated" files are created. I am running into this a lot and it is frustrating having to redo work that I have already done.

Note that I don't want to copy the entire design, just parts of it. If there isn't a way to do this, some instructions on how to manually do it by merging/copying parts of files would be useful.

Enhancement requests...

* Support for custom widgets would be nice in TouchGFX designer. I don't need full WYSIWYG, just the ability to draw a rectangle, specify the class name and header file, and the generated code (xxxViewBase) to set x/y width/height. I'm finding I have to extend a lot of the provided classes so I have to delete them from the designer and add them in code. It gets hard to layout a screen when you can no longer see your custom elements.

* Better gesture support. I don't know if this is just my lack of under standing of the implementation (gestures.cpp isn't provided). If I swipe on the screen, I get calls to all my overridden methods handleClickEvent, handleDragEvent, and handleGestureEvent, when all I did was swipe - I would only expect a Gesture::Swipe. I see this behaviour also when I have a button on a SwipeContainer. If I swipe, and my initial touch is on the button, the button gets the click event; the container doesn't swipe. To use the swipe container, I need to dodge any controls on the screen - it is not a great user experience.

Frank

Please make TouchGFX Designer availaible for Linux.

Adding the following to this wish list:

https://community.st.com/s/question/0D53W000004k3sdSAA/is-there-a-way-to-add-user-code-areas-to-touchgfx-generator-files-so-user-code-is-not-over-written-by-a-cubemx-generation

For people willing to add new ideas, you can also write your inputs in the "Idea Zone" section of this forum.

Please alter the image progress widget to re-render only the areas that are being changed to improve performance.

This is discussed in the following thread:

https://community.st.com/s/question/0D53W00000DJ6zXSAT/imageprogress-widgetis-the-whole-progress-rerendered-when-setvalue-is-called

Would it be possible to add floating point parameters to the Circle widget in the Designer?

As of the latest version (4.14.0), only integers appear to be valid (start and end angle is in 1 degree increments, for example). It is possible to use floating points for the functions updateArcStart() and updateArcEnd() in the code:

Would it be possible to add this to the Designer as well?