BenF another feature request

[lygra]

@RoadRanger

@BenF

There is a menu today where you can select frequency as measurment and this will turn the Nano into a Frequency Counter. If you shift the menu position down two steps it becomes a Voltmeter. How is this different from what you had in mind?

Perhaps he was wishing you could turn off the trace and expand the text of the measurements so it looks like a multimeter? The screen is big enough that you could have all of the measurements on the screen at once in large type? Kinda a “zoom” function on the present “me” all display menu selection?

This feature would provide the greatest benefit to those who need glasses but hate to wear them all the time. For ease of use they simply select Vpp for DC volts, Vrms for AC volts, Freq for frequency, etc.

Possible food for thought to implement this feature with minimized code impact. Because the present ME menu already displays the measurement selected at last pop-up at the top right of screen, it might be possible to add a “meter visible”/“meter hide” option on the ME pop-up menu. When the pop-up closes, the larger characters of the selected measurement value would overlay the screen (“meter visible”) and also still remain at it’s normal location (top right of screen). If they mistakenly close the ME pop-up with “meter visible” selected, then display “Select” for the ME results.

“Meter hide” would operate as it does now with no large characters.

If you used the same magenta color of the oversize characters as the waveform color, then the waveform could still update on the screen with minimal interference with the block style large characters. Otherwise you could just disable the waveform updates during “meter visible” mode.