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* Take keyboards, mice and touch screens on the display (evdev)eunhhu2026-09-271-2/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | vega display --live reads the kernel's input events with no library: keys become Pure's key names and the text they type on a US layout, going through the TUI's own handling (the input line takes text, else the app takes keys); a mouse moves an outlined pointer and clicks, a touch screen presses where it is touched, scaled from the device's range; the line pressed is the row. --input FILE reads recorded events to their end and prints the last frame, which is how this screenless Pi checks it: after typing two items with Shift, Enter, Tab, Space and a touch on a row, the display's last frame is the TUI's after the same keys and click, and came back from the display controller as drawn.
* Put the frames on a display through KMS, checked by writebackeunhhu2026-09-271-2/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | vega display draws the same frames on a display with the kernel's mode setting and no library between: a connected connector's mode on a CRTC, its primary plane flipped between two dumb buffers by atomic commits, the grid as many cells as fit. Frames are drawn in cached memory and copied over, since blending over write-combined buffers read them back slowly (a 1080p frame took 370 ms; now 20.6 ms with a vertical sync and the check below). This Pi has no screen but its display controller has writeback connectors: --writeback sets a mode on one and takes every frame back as the controller put it out. Each came back exactly as drawn, and the new check finds it the pixel surface's frame for the same grid, pixel for pixel.
* Draw the TUI's cells as pixels with the symbols' glyphseunhhu2026-09-271-0/+41
vega pixels runs the same scripts as tui --dump and writes each frame as an image: the view's cells (only those on screen are evaluated) become glyphs, each drawn once per size with the exact area of its curves, in its tone's colour on its row's background. No page, no scene in between. A 1920x1350 grid takes 12 ms a frame here, writing the image included. Symbol files carry the font's line now (format 3: ascent and descent where format 2 kept zeros), the cell height and baseline; and the build tool takes fonts in order, later ones filling the codes earlier ones lack: a CJK font alone drew ambiguous-width arrows two cells wide in a one-cell grid, which the new check caught, so a monospace Latin font comes first and Hangul after.