TouchGFX Sliding Transitions to screens

[ATank.1]

Hello,

I am using STM32H745 controller with TouchGFX. I wanted to achieve slide transitions such as top to bottom, left to right and right to left for going to other screens. 

When I slide from top edge to down, slide from right edge to left, slide from left edge to right it should switch to different screen. Am using a resistive touchscreen with TouchGFX

How can we achive such transitions using TouchGFX?

Thanks 

Anuj

[LouisB]

Hello @ATank.1,

When you create an interaction in designer, you can select a change screen interaction with a slide transition.

You can refer to the examples or demos in designer.

Regards,

[ATank.1]

Hello,

Is this available in the latest TouchGFX version? we are using 4.21.00

How the trigger is detected i.e user has performed slide from top to bottom or right to left?. Can this be done using the touchGFX designer itself using interaction section or we need to write code?

Please see attached image

Thanks

Anuj

[LouisB]

Hello @ATank.1 ,

You have first to put a trigger (button click), and an action to it.
In action chose change screen then you will have the option to change the transition.
I highly recommend you to do the tutorial and read the documentation : TouchGFX Documentation | TouchGFX Documentation and the tutorials Tutorials | TouchGFX Documentation.

Regards,

[ATank.1]

Hello,

I don't want the trigger to be on button click. I want the trigger when the user slides his finger from top edge of the display to bottom or right edge of the display to left then the screen transition should happen. In the designer I see only 4 options for trigger

Hardware button is clicked, Screen transition begins, Sceen transition ends and Trigger on every N tick

How do I achieve the trigger ?

Thanks

Anuj

[JTP1]

Hello Anuj

I think you must implement handleDragEvent-function to all screens for handle the draggings and then trigger slide transition from screen to another when needed.

You can easily get all transition functions generated to FrontendApplicationBase.cpp by just adding empty interactions to some of your screens like

Remember to add all necessary transitions. Then you can trigger a transition from view by calling function like: 

application().gotoScreen2ScreenSlideTransitionEast();

Here is example of simple horizontal swipe detection. view.cpp:

#include <gui/screen1_screen/Screen1View.hpp>
#include <touchgfx/Utils.hpp>
Screen1View::Screen1View()
{

}

void Screen1View::setupScreen()
{
    Screen1ViewBase::setupScreen();
    clearSwipeCounter=0;
    swipeXcounter=0;
    swipeYcounter=0;
    skipDragCounter=SKIP_DRAG_AFTER_SHOW_TIME;
}

void Screen1View::tearDownScreen()
{
    Screen1ViewBase::tearDownScreen();
}
void Screen1View::handleTickEvent()
{
	if(skipDragCounter!=0)skipDragCounter--;
	if(clearSwipeCounter!=0)
	{
		clearSwipeCounter--;
		if(clearSwipeCounter==0)
		{
			swipeXcounter=0;
			swipeYcounter=0;
#ifdef DEBUGMSG
			touchgfx_printf("SWIPE TIMEOUT scr1 \n");
#endif 

		}
	}

}

void Screen1View::handleDragEvent(const DragEvent & event)
{
	if(skipDragCounter==0)
	{

		swipeXcounter+=event.getDeltaX();
		swipeYcounter+=event.getDeltaY();
	#ifdef DEBUGMSG
		touchgfx_printf("handleDragEvent dx: %d dy: %d xc: %d yc: %d \n",event.getDeltaX(),event.getDeltaY(),
				swipeXcounter,swipeYcounter);
	#endif
		if(abs(swipeXcounter)>SWIPE_X_MIN_TRAVEL&&
			abs(swipeYcounter)<SWIPE_Y_MAX_TRAVEL)
		{
			if(swipeXcounter>0)
			{
	#ifdef DEBUGMSG
				touchgfx_printf("SWIPE RIGHT \n");
	#endif
				application().gotoScreen4ScreenSlideTransitionWest();
			}
			else
			{
	#ifdef DEBUGMSG
				touchgfx_printf("SWIPE LEFT \n");
	#endif
				application().gotoScreen2ScreenSlideTransitionEast();

			}
			clearSwipeCounter=0;
			swipeXcounter=0;
			swipeYcounter=0;
		}
		else
		{
			clearSwipeCounter=SWIPE_TIMEOUT;
		}
	}
	else skipDragCounter=SKIP_DRAG_AFTER_SHOW_TIME;
}

 view.hpp:

#ifndef SCREEN1VIEW_HPP
#define SCREEN1VIEW_HPP

#include <gui_generated/screen1_screen/Screen1ViewBase.hpp>
#include <gui/screen1_screen/Screen1Presenter.hpp>

class Screen1View : public Screen1ViewBase
{
public:

    Screen1View();
    virtual ~Screen1View() {}
    virtual void setupScreen();
    virtual void tearDownScreen();
    void handleDragEvent(const DragEvent & event);
    void handleTickEvent();
protected:
    uint16_t clearSwipeCounter=0;
    uint16_t skipDragCounter=0;
    int16_t swipeXcounter=0;
    int16_t	swipeYcounter=0;
};

#endif // SCREEN1VIEW_HPP

some definitions in model.hpp

#ifndef MODEL_HPP
#define MODEL_HPP

#define SWIPE_X_MIN_TRAVEL	150
#define SWIPE_Y_MAX_TRAVEL	60
#define SWIPE_TIMEOUT	4       		// timeout which kills the ongoin counting (ticks)
#define SKIP_DRAG_AFTER_SHOW_TIME	4 	// how long dragging must not persist after screen
										// change

#define DEBUGMSG

This example handles only horizontal swipes, but it is not big deal to add vertical direction also.

Hopefully this helps.

Br JTP