This is a larger clean-up of the refresh situation.
The general shift is that refreshes are now mainly triggered by
the (top-level) widgets when they get shown or closed via UIManager.
All refreshes for the widgets when they are in use were handled by
themselves before. This adds the case of showing/closing.
It is the desired result of not having UIManager:show()/:close()
do (full screen) refreshes on its own.
This serves as a good example for the way refreshes are done:
setDirty("all", function() ... end)
* the "all" will have all widgets on screen repainted.
In this case that is needed because the config pane has
different sizes, covering different parts of underlying
widgets. So they need to be repainted every time.
* the function will return the area to refresh and is evaluated
after painting. In this example, we take the area that is covered
by the config pane before switching it (if present at all), and
hand it to the refresh area function as an upvalue.
When the function is called later after painting, it will
use that saved area and combine it with the area that is covered
then by the widget. That way, parts that are covered no more are
included in the refresh area, too.
when the image (e.g. a PNG) does contain an alpha channel, that can
be honored by ImageWidget. It doesn't do so by default for compatibility
(arguably, we should change that in the future), it has to be enabled
by setting the "alpha" property to "true" (boolean, not string).
This is the remaining gruntwork of #1276. I believe that only leaves networkmgr.lua and filemanagersearch.lua, which will require a little more thought.
the height of filechooser is provided when creating filechooser
widget since there may be no title as in filemanger which needs
a special title widget to contain filemanger menu.
This will convert any file name to lowercase before doing the comparison.
Note that this will only work for ASCII character range, a full Unicode
aware solution will be much more complicated. And in the end, file names
are byte arrays, not character strings ;-)
fixes#1183.
The strcoll() workaround we had in place for Kobo devices was (or has
become) ineffective. We had set self.strcoll to nil on Kobo devices -
but this was the instance variable. Setting it to nil effectively makes
the instance variable vanish, so when trying to access it later, it
was not there and got looked up via the metatable - which had the original
reference. Setting it to nil had no effect whatsoever.
We simplify that approach and set the replacement function where before we
had set this to nil.
This is a partial fix for issue #1183 (and explains a comment in issue #686
which says that the old fix did not work).
However, to really fix#1183 - if we want to do so - we would need a collate
function that normalizes uppercase/lowercase before compare.
and remove the wifi toggler on the footer of each menu page,
so that network status is only checked (currently with the stdout of ip cmd)
when navigating to the "Network settings" submenu instead of checking
on each menu popup.
