I found it quite slow to iterate on TiDAL badge code, so wrote my app against a 'driver'. The driver is responsible for everything that requires the tidal runtime environment. The local implementation of driver simply prints out the things it should do; on the device itself you use real_driver.py instead. You implement all the commands you want in real_driver.py.
I'm not a python programmer. It worked on python 2.7 and 3 - three is the one to use for microppython. Sorry for any issues you encounter, PRs accepted!
Here's a demo of the output. The app displays "tick 1" ... "tick $N" in orange when run on the TiDAL.
ƒ python3 test.py
Yourapp defined ok
on_activate
run_ticker
fill BLACK
text tick 1 10 60 BRAND_ORANGE
fill BLACK
text tick 2 10 60 BRAND_ORANGE
fill BLACK
text tick 3 10 60 BRAND_ORANGE
fill BLACK
text tick 4 10 60 BRAND_ORANGE
fill BLACK
text tick 5 10 60 BRAND_ORANGE
on_activate
stop_ticker
Put the apps/yourapp structure onto your TiDAL (ensure you have the apps/init.py present too).
From the root of this repo, copy the *driver.py files
into the root of your tidal. You'll iterate on real_driver.py as you need
more real TiDAL functionality, and perhaps add more sophisticated
fake implementations in the fake_driver.py that is only used
on your machine.this
Do not upload the stub files:
app.py # stub of the TiDAL App class
tidal.py # stub for TiDAL constants it's useful to refer to in your app