Blitting image onto canvas results in white screens

[monoceres]

Hi!

I just started developing apps to my nokia 5800 using python.

So I thought I made some simple graphics work with a background image but the result is unexpected (at least for me).

My code looks like this:

import appuifw
import e32
import graphics


appuifw.app.screen='full'


def quit():
    global running
    running=0
running=1
    
appuifw.app.exit_key_handler=quit

appuifw.app.title = u"test"

i = graphics.Image.open(u"e:\\background.jpg")
c = appuifw.Canvas()
appuifw.app.body=c


while running:
	c.blit(i)
	e32.ao_sleep(0.5)

It seems that the longer I sleep the main loop the longer sequences of blank white screens I get. When for example sleeping for 5 seconds I get ~5 seconds of white color while when using 5 ms I only get flashing white color. Removing the sleep solves the issue but makes it impossible to shutdown the app and I can't see how it's good programming. My conclusion is that the screen gets cleared somehow while the main thread is sleeping, why is this?

Running on the emulator btw.

Thanks in advance!

[JOM]

You draw directly on canvas, ignoring system screen redraw callback. The white screen is caused by system redraw. Try something around this code:

def cb_redraw(dummy=(0, 0, 0, 0)):
    ''' Overwrite default screen redraw event handler '''
    if img:
        canvas.blit(img)

def draw():
    ''' Custom screen update routine '''
   img.clear(RGB_RED)
   img.ellipse(width=5, outline=RGB_BLACK)
   cb_redraw()

canvas = appuifw.Canvas(redraw_callback = cb_redraw)
appuifw.app.body = canvas

...please note that this code does not work, it's there just to give you the idea about how to do it...

Cheers,

--jouni

[monoceres]

Thanks! I knew it was something simple