Ten more apps: support 64x64 square panels (round 8) - #756
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nycalerts and fbiwanted share a layout: an 11px header, a rule, and a 20px body the alert or notice scrolls through. The body takes the rows under the rule: 52 on a square panel. abcnews scrolls its headlines through the rows under its 7px title, 56 on square, instead of a fixed 24. nova, abcradio and raafuelwatch each stack fixed bands totalling 32 rows; on a square panel the column expands and spreads them. yearprogress's bar is 10 rows on a 64x32 panel and 24 on a square one, where the year and the percentage keep their size and the column spreads them. severewxalertsusa lays every frame out for 32 rows (64 at 2x); a square panel is 64 tall but not 2x, so each frame is centred rather than hung from the top edge. desknametag and esbnyccolors already fill a square panel as written and only needed to say so. All rendered at 64x32, 64x64 and 128x64; 64x32 unchanged in each. Installed on the bench's displays. @64x64.webp previews included. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Giving the body 52 rows left a single ticker line padded 4px from the top of them. On a square panel the same text is wrapped to the panel width and scrolled vertically through the rows instead; 64x32 keeps its sideways ticker exactly as it was. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Hardware pass on the 64×64 display (bench Raspberry Pi 3B, under-voltage-throttled, load ~7.5 — pessimistic; the device is carrying 80+ test apps now so one rotation takes a while):
abcnews hit the deadline at 64×64. Its headline marquee is now 56 rows instead of 24, and the feed's full article list scrolls through it, so the animation got longer — same shape as the militarynews case in round 3. I'll follow up on this branch with a cap on how many articles a square panel scrolls so it stays inside the budget; the 64×32 render (22 s on this Pi, untouched code) is already marginal, which is the app rather than the port. |
The whole list scrolls through the marquee, so its length is the animation's length; at 56 rows the full feed timed out on the bench Raspberry Pi 3B. Eight stories is still more than a 24-row panel gets through in one rotation. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Correction on abcnews: I pushed a "cap the list to eight stories on square" commit and then reverted it. The app already caps its feed at five stories ( |
Round 8. Each rendered at 64×32, 64×64 and 128×64, then installed on the bench's displays and rendered there by the server (numbers in a comment below).
nycalertsfbiwantednovaabcradioabcnewsyearprogressraafuelwatchseverewxalertsusadesknametagesbnyccolors64×64 column: the committed
@64x64.webppreview (native 64px, upscaled by the browser). 64×32 column: the app's existing preview.What changed, per app
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All ten pass
pixlet check; shape tested withh == wviais_square(), neverh == 64. Every change evaluates to the old value at 32 rows; the square-only branches are additive.🤖 Generated with Claude Code