Help: Fn+h lists the keys of the screen you're on, and no screen names its keys any more (#69)
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Fn+h on any screen, text fields included, and ? outside Text Entry, open a
panel over the content area: the screen's own keys, then the ones that work
everywhere. Every App declares its keys for the state it is in (pages,
viewers, dialogs and text fields answer for themselves); the App manager
opens the panel and takes every key while it is open.

About 30 hint lines are gone, from every App. What stays on a screen is
state. The first-start Setup keeps its hints and teaches the key; a device
set up before gets one Toast, once. The guide and the FAQ open with it.
`key help` over the consoles.

476 host tests (8 new). Checked on the device with key help and screenshots:
the Launcher, all nine Apps and several of their states. 8.5 KB of flash and
40 bytes of static RAM. Decisions Q196 to Q203 in docs/milestones/U1.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EhqxQ49eCju4CzKYNjZzwT
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2026-10-07 01:29:51 +02:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5.5
parent 1c6ae0e04f
commit 7fe8b3d22a
62 changed files with 855 additions and 81 deletions
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@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ void Screen::render(AppManager& apps, const StatusInfo& status, const Toast* toa
const auto& area = theme::kContent;
canvas_.setClipRect(area.x, area.y, area.w, area.h);
apps.foreground().draw(canvas_);
if (apps.help().isOpen()) widgets::help(canvas_, apps.help()); // over the App, under the Status Bar
canvas_.clearClipRect();
widgets::statusBar(canvas_, status);
if (toast) widgets::toast(canvas_, *toast);
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@@ -175,4 +175,40 @@ void toast(Canvas& c, const Toast& t) {
c.clearClipRect();
}
void help(Canvas& c, const HelpModel& model) {
const auto& area = kContent;
c.fillRect(area.x, area.y, area.w, area.h, kBackground);
c.setTextDatum(top_left);
c.setFont(&fonts::bold);
c.setTextColor(kAccent);
c.drawString(("Keys: " + model.title()).c_str(), 4, area.y + 1);
c.drawFastHLine(4, area.y + 13, area.w - 8, kMuted);
const int top = area.y + 16, keysX = 4, actionX = 70;
const auto& rows = model.rows();
int count = static_cast<int>(rows.size());
for (int row = 0; row < model.visibleRows(); row++) {
int i = model.top() + row;
if (i >= count) break;
int y = top + row * kLineHeight;
if (!rows[i].action) { // a heading
c.setFont(&fonts::bold);
c.setTextColor(kMuted);
c.drawString(rows[i].keys, keysX, y);
continue;
}
c.setFont(&fonts::body);
c.setTextColor(kAccent);
c.drawString(rows[i].keys, keysX, y);
c.setTextColor(kText);
c.drawString(rows[i].action, actionX, y);
}
if (count > model.visibleRows()) {
int h = model.visibleRows() * kLineHeight;
int barH = h * model.visibleRows() / count;
int barY = top + (h - barH) * model.top() / (count - model.visibleRows());
c.fillRect(area.x + area.w - 2, barY, 2, barH, kMuted);
}
}
} // namespace roro::widgets
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@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
#include "canvas.h"
#include "dialog_model.h"
#include "key_help.h"
#include "line_editor.h"
#include "list_model.h"
#include "text_wrap.h"
@@ -59,6 +60,9 @@ void lineEditor(Canvas& c, const LineEditor& editor, theme::Rect area);
void dialog(Canvas& c, const std::string& title, const std::string& message, const DialogModel& model);
// The help panel (Fn+h): the keys of the screen under it, over the whole content area.
void help(Canvas& c, const HelpModel& model);
void toast(Canvas& c, const Toast& t);
} // namespace widgets