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- RGB display driver added
- display_driver API:
  - Added software-based display rotation for screens without hardware rotation support.
  - Improved display capability detection across supported display drivers.
- lvgl_display driver:
  - Improved framebuffer handling for smoother, more reliable display updates.
  - Display gap and rotation behavior now adapts more accurately to hardware capabilities.
- Migration Crowpanel 5" basic & advance to kernel drivers
- Improve KernelDisplay app: brightness controls are hidden for displays that only support on/off operation
- device.py now allows for (non-ambiguous) partial device IDs
- TactilityKernel: Implement more tests
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lvgl-module

This module manages the lifecycle of the LVGL library within the Tactility ecosystem.

What the library does

The lvgl-module provides:

  • Lifecycle Management: Handles initialization and termination of the LVGL library.
  • Task Management: Manages the LVGL main loop task.
  • Thread-Safety: Provides mutex-based locking mechanisms (lvgl_lock, lvgl_unlock) to ensure safe access to LVGL APIs from multiple tasks.
  • Font Access: Provides a unified interface to access pre-configured text and icon fonts.

Different types of fonts

The module supports two main categories of fonts:

Text Fonts

Standard text rendering uses the Montserrat font. Three sizes are pre-configured:

  • FONT_SIZE_SMALL
  • FONT_SIZE_DEFAULT
  • FONT_SIZE_LARGE

Icon Fonts

Icons are provided by the Material Symbols font, divided into three usage-specific sets:

  • Statusbar Icons: Optimized for the system status bar.
  • Launcher Icons: Sized for application launchers.
  • Shared Icons: General purpose icons used across the system.

How to update the fonts

Font sizes and symbols are configurable:

  • On ESP32 (IDF): Sizes can be updated via menuconfig or by editing sdkconfig. Look for CONFIG_TT_LVGL_FONT_SIZE_* and CONFIG_TT_LVGL_*_ICON_SIZE parameters.
  • On Simulator/POSIX: Default sizes are defined in Modules/lvgl-module/CMakeLists.txt.

If you change an icon font size, ensure that a corresponding C file exists in source-fonts/ (e.g., material_symbols_shared_24.c). These files are generated from TTF/OTF fonts using the LVGL font converter.

License

This module is licensed under the Apache v2.0 license.