Hi all,

I'm having some difficulty with the display on my Dial flickering when I try to redraw it-- I suspect from this issue that the problem is that clear() and clearDisplay() write all zeros to and (maybe?) entirely flush the buffer (I'm not sure if neither, only one, or both does that) and I can't quite figure out what to do here-- I'm porting some code and it handles display redrawing by assuming that each frame starts empty and is emitted when the display() function is called (the original uses Adafruit_SSD1306, I'm trying to change it to to use the M5GFX object in M5Dial.Display). What am I missing here?

@teastain That's what I'm trying to do! I find the UIFlow2 IDE really convenient for its toolchain integration and would like to be able to use micropython directly in it with first-class support.

@kuriko I disagree, the feature is incredibly necessary. I like UIFlow a lot as a framework and I quite like the Python API, but the block programming system is unwieldy for folks who know Python and want to write more expressive programs.

(I'm also not a fan of the codegen done by any visual programming engine, but that gripe is more stylistic than substantive)

I am reasonable at C++ but I really prefer doing prototyping in Python and I like the drag-and-drop UI of the UIFlow2 IDE. I've just been saving it in a text buffer.

The current UIFlow IDE doesn't actually have any way of saving code written in the "custom edit" mode. This is especially problematic given that the uiflow2 plugin for VSCode, the only other fully-featured IDE with support for for M5Stack mpy, seems to have been abandoned around a year ago.