New Bangle.js 2 menu system

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Gordon

The need was to allow to draw custom vector graphic on top of the item. Like frames, colored bars, or circles, or whatever.

What's the use case for this?

If you're planning on making menus look totally different by drawing over them, IMO you really just need to make your own menus using E.showMenu as a base.

Otherwise what you're doing will likely break if the menu system is drawn in a slightly different way in the future (or if for instance someone installs one of the alternate menu systems from the app loader)

Does it mean I need to create a bitmap, draw into that, then pass it to format() as a string?

Yes - you just use Graphics.createArrayBuffer to create a Graphics instance, then use gfx.asImage("string")

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malaire in reply to @Gordon

... make your own menus using E.showMenu as a base.

Is that also written in JS? Where is it defined?

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rigrig in reply to @malaire

The built-in versions can be found in the Espruino repo (if there is a Q3 version, that is specific for the Bangle.js 2)
If you search for "menu" in the app loader there are already some apps that show how to replace menus using a .boot.js file

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