Garry Clarkson
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Guidance on setting an appropriate task stack size for Storyboard on an MCU
I was asked by one of our customers how to scope and define the maximum size of Stack for the task that Storyboard will run? There were some follow-up questions and expansions that I wanted to shar...
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Lua Cheat Sheet - examples of common syntax
Here is a quick drop of a cheat sheet for common Lua syntax and notations that we use during Storyboard training. Hopefully you find it useful LuaCheatSheet.lua : -- Lua Cheat Sheet for Programmers...
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Example using GPIO hard-button inputs mapped to standard key board events when running Storyboard on MCUs
We typically leave this code implementation up to customers as the hardware is very board specific however we did not have a great deal of documentation to show how this could be done for an MCU ta...
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NXP MCUXpresso Touch controller not working on iMXRT1050, iMXRT1060 and iMXRT1064 - panel RK043FN02H
There is a software bundle and demo for the iMXRT10xx family already included in the NXP MCUXpresso SDK Builder for the common EVK evaluation boards, available directly from NXP and I discovered th...
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Raspberry Pi graphics drivers initial configuration - OpenGL runtime support issues
I have seen a couple of occurrences from customers in our support channel that have seen issues in the initial bring-up and configuration of the Raspberry Pi with the Storyboard runtime engine. If ...
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How to send data events with a payload that contains only a subset of the parameters in the format string
This question came up recently and is quite a common use case so worthy of some discussion. Question: I have defined a named custom event in Storyboard and I want to send this event using Storyboar...
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Touch configuration for Storyboard on Toradex Colibri iMX6ULL Eval Board
I was working with a customer who needed to enable the touch support on one of our hardware partner boards from Toradex - Colibri iMX6ULL with the Colibri Eval-v3 carrier board. There is a 7 inc...
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Horizontal scrolling menus using layers
User Question: I want to build a menu which can be scrolled horizontally by swiping left and right. So far I have a header and footer area, each as layers, which will have content that is static su...
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More keyboard input - handling hold and key repeat
In the forum post https://support.cranksoftware.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360048062671-Keyboard-input we discuss how to handle keyboard input in Storyboard, this works well for simple key press,...
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Error building ThermostatIO back-end SBIO sample code for using Visual Studio
All, an issue came up when trying to build the C source code and back-end test application for the ThermostatIO sample that is included with Storyboard Designer. The idea is to run this on the desk...