You can combine many menu structures from different devices into a single menu, this works by each remote menu being represented by a object being associated with a and a . It maps the remote menu into an unused ID range on the local device and even handles dialog commands. Available from version 2.3 of tcMenu Designer and API....
Available from 2.3 onwards. On larger embedded devices you can serve up embedCONTROL.JS from a web browser. It allows you to remotely control and monitor the menu items from a web page on any device that can run a web browser. It is a single page web application based on React.JS. It supports the most important functions from the full embedCONTROL...
In this guide we show how to setup and use the embedded Java remote plugin to allow embedCONTROL connections to a Raspberry PI or other embedded Linux board. Back to tcMenu main page
Both EmbedControl remote and local work using the same UI components, and they can take a tcMenu Designer created menu tree and convert it automatically into a displayable graph. The "embedded/local" version does this with the menu tree embedded within it, while the "remote" version does so using a menu tree that it bootstrapped from a remote device. In order to...
This touch screen input plugin supports both XPT2046 and FT6206 based touch screens. In order for this plugin to work correctly the right underlying library must be installed. These are described below: XPT2046 Paul Stoffregen XPT2046 library , best installed from library manager. FT6206 Adafruit_FT6206 library , best installed from library manager When using this touch plugin, the concept of touching...
Examples of this theme Information about themes in general . Below we show an example of a color theme, the one shown is the cool-blue theme: TcMenu ships with the cool-blue color theme presently that is only compatible with color displays. Each color scheme has a traditional mode aimed at smaller resolutions, and a modern theme designed for larger fonts, with...
Below we show an example of the dark mode theme, it is designed to have darker background colors with lighter text and images. TcMenu ships with two dark mode color themes and they are only compatible with color displays. The dark mode theme revolves around black and dark grey backgrounds with light grey and white foregrounds. It is available in traditional...
Examples of this theme Information about themes in general . Below we show three examples of this theme, first you see an inverse title example, but with sliders turned on, we don't do this by default as it comes with some issues, but some may like it. Second, we show inverse video on a dual color OLED, and lastly, we show...
From tcMenu 2.1 onwards the designer download also has a CLI available. This CLI can be used to completely round trip menus for those with a UI dislike, or even for small changes for the rest of us. We've optimized the flow so that it works really well with Visual Studio code (VS-code), but most editors would work fairly well. In...
Requirements Current support: ESP32 touch sensor hardware. Touch-pad sensor summary Touch-pad sensors check for button presses without an actual switch, instead the rely on a change in capacitance when the user touches an area (usually a small metal plate around the size of a finger. Given that this procedure is quite complex, it usually requires hardware support for such inputs, so...