Hi everyone!
I’m extremely new to processing and coding as a whole, and so I have many questions. But one, in particular, I haven’t been able to find on google. I am creating a GUI dashboard that will eventually interface with an Arduino to measure and control motors and fans. I plan to use all of the libraries I have imported, through the use of text boxes, user input, graphs of sensor outputs over time, and such.
However, upon running the sketch, the task manager reports a memory usage of over 2GB, which unless I am very mistaken, is far too much for a simple program such as this. I understand that the windows task manager does not always report accurate values, but this still seems too high.
I have found that increasing the delay drastically lowers memory usage, but the application will need a fast updating UI to catch any irregular, outlying data, and so just increasing the delay is not an option for me.
I think the issue lies in my (hopefully) unoptimized resizing code, simply because I find it hard to believe I am doing it correctly. However, I could not figure out another way to allow resizing (again, a requirement for the application) in any simpler way.
Thanks for any help!
F1yin
Oh, and sorry for any fourm formatting faux pas, do let me know if I could do better.
//import libraries
import grafica.*;
import meter.*;
import controlP5.*;
import interfascia.*;
//Vars and Objects
PFont font;
//PShape rectangle; //deprecated now that current values are displayed on the meters
Meter horizontalAugerMeter, pyrolysisAugerMeter, feedstockAugerMeter;
int sensorValue; //testing sensor
int horizontalAugerRPM;
int pyrolysisAugerRPM;
int feedstockAugerRPM;
int pyrolysisChamberFanRPM; //unimpemented
int syngasBurnFanRPM; //unimpemented
//min and max input signals for the meters
int minInHorizontalAuger = 1;
int maxInHorizontalAuger = 10;
int minInPyrolysisAuger = 1;
int maxInPyrolysisAuger = 10;
int minInFeedstockAuger = 1;
int maxInFeedstockAuger = 10;
//resizing code
int minSensorValue = 100000; //need one for each sensor, the value is arbitrarily large to be out of the scope of the project.
int maxSensorValue = -100000; //if the sensor returns values larger than this number change it to be large again.
int minHorizontalAugerRPM = 100000;
int maxHorizontalAugerRPM = -100000;
int minPyrolysisAugerRPM = 100000;
int maxPyrolysisAugerRPM = -100000;
int minFeedstockAugerRPM = 100000;
int maxFeedstockAugerRPM = -100000;
int displaysize;
boolean resized = true;
//Setup
void setup() {
size(1080, 720);
background(197,217,227);
displaysize = width;
surface.setResizable(true);
//text settings
font = createFont("Ebrima", 16, true);
//max and min sensor values
//create the meters; this needs to be in the resizing loop too
horizontalAugerMeter = new Meter(this, 60, 30);
pyrolysisAugerMeter = new Meter(this,width - (width / 4) * 2 - (width / 8), 30);
feedstockAugerMeter = new Meter(this,width - width / 4 - 60, 30);
//set the meter settings here
//the rest of the meter settings must be set in the loop as well to allow resize
//horizontalAugerMeter
horizontalAugerMeter.setMeterWidth(width / 4);
horizontalAugerMeter.setMinInputSignal(minInHorizontalAuger);
horizontalAugerMeter.setMaxInputSignal(maxInHorizontalAuger);
String[] horizontalAugerscaleLabels = {"1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9","10"};
horizontalAugerMeter.setScaleLabels(horizontalAugerscaleLabels);
horizontalAugerMeter.setTitle("Horizontal Auger RPM");
horizontalAugerMeter.setDisplayMaximumNeedle(true);
horizontalAugerMeter.setDisplayMinimumNeedle(true);
//horizontalAugerMeter.setDisplayMaximumValue(true); //not needed and replaced with current value
horizontalAugerMeter.setMaxScaleValue(10);
//pyrolysisAugerMeter
pyrolysisAugerMeter.setMeterWidth(width / 4);
pyrolysisAugerMeter.setMinInputSignal(minInPyrolysisAuger);
pyrolysisAugerMeter.setMaxInputSignal(maxInPyrolysisAuger);
String[] pyrolysisAugerScaleLabels = {"1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9","10"};
pyrolysisAugerMeter.setScaleLabels(pyrolysisAugerScaleLabels);
pyrolysisAugerMeter.setTitle("Pyrolysis Auger RPM");
pyrolysisAugerMeter.setDisplayMaximumNeedle(true);
pyrolysisAugerMeter.setDisplayMinimumNeedle(true);
//pyrolysisAugerMeter.setDisplayMaximumValue(true);
pyrolysisAugerMeter.setMaxScaleValue(10);
//feedstockAugerMeter
feedstockAugerMeter.setMeterWidth(width / 4);
feedstockAugerMeter.setMinInputSignal(minInPyrolysisAuger);
feedstockAugerMeter.setMaxInputSignal(maxInPyrolysisAuger);
String[] feedstockAugerScaleLabels = {"1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9","10"};
feedstockAugerMeter.setScaleLabels(feedstockAugerScaleLabels);
feedstockAugerMeter.setTitle("Feedstock Auger RPM");
feedstockAugerMeter.setDisplayMaximumNeedle(true);
feedstockAugerMeter.setDisplayMinimumNeedle(true);
//feedstockAugerMeter.setDisplayMaximumValue(true);
feedstockAugerMeter.setMaxScaleValue(10);
}
//Draw
void draw() {
//--------------------
//random sensor values
//--------------------
sensorValue = (int)random(1, 11); //random sensor value
horizontalAugerRPM = sensorValue;
pyrolysisAugerRPM = sensorValue / 2 + 1;
feedstockAugerRPM = sensorValue / 3 + 3;
//--------------
//resizing code
//--------------
//max and min value saving
//SensorValue
if (minSensorValue > sensorValue) {
minSensorValue = sensorValue;
}
if (maxSensorValue < sensorValue) {
maxSensorValue = sensorValue;
}
//horizontalAugerRPM
if (minHorizontalAugerRPM > horizontalAugerRPM) {
minHorizontalAugerRPM = horizontalAugerRPM;
}
if (maxHorizontalAugerRPM < horizontalAugerRPM) {
maxHorizontalAugerRPM = horizontalAugerRPM;
}
//pyrolysisAugerRPM
if (minPyrolysisAugerRPM > pyrolysisAugerRPM) {
minPyrolysisAugerRPM = pyrolysisAugerRPM;
}
if (maxPyrolysisAugerRPM < pyrolysisAugerRPM) {
maxPyrolysisAugerRPM = pyrolysisAugerRPM;
}
//feedstockAugerRPM
if (minFeedstockAugerRPM > feedstockAugerRPM) {
minFeedstockAugerRPM = feedstockAugerRPM;
}
if (maxFeedstockAugerRPM < feedstockAugerRPM) {
maxFeedstockAugerRPM = feedstockAugerRPM;
}
//scale up all meters by replacing them
if (width != displaysize) {
displaysize = width; //reset displaysize
//paste all meter settings again after the overwrite with added min/max values
//Horizontal Auger
horizontalAugerMeter = new Meter(this, 60, 30);
horizontalAugerMeter.setMeterWidth(width / 4);
horizontalAugerMeter.setMinInputSignal(minInHorizontalAuger);
horizontalAugerMeter.setMaxInputSignal(maxInHorizontalAuger);
String[] horizontalAugerscaleLabels = {"1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9","10"};
horizontalAugerMeter.setScaleLabels(horizontalAugerscaleLabels);
horizontalAugerMeter.setTitle("Horizontal Auger RPM");
horizontalAugerMeter.setDisplayMaximumNeedle(true);
horizontalAugerMeter.setDisplayMinimumNeedle(true);
//horizontalAugerMeter.setDisplayMaximumValue(true); //not needed and replaced with current value
horizontalAugerMeter.setMaxScaleValue(10);
horizontalAugerMeter.updateMeter(minHorizontalAugerRPM);
horizontalAugerMeter.updateMeter(maxHorizontalAugerRPM);
//Vertical Auger
pyrolysisAugerMeter = new Meter(this,width - (width / 4) * 2 - (width / 8), 30);
pyrolysisAugerMeter.setMeterWidth(width / 4);
pyrolysisAugerMeter.setMinInputSignal(minInPyrolysisAuger);
pyrolysisAugerMeter.setMaxInputSignal(maxInPyrolysisAuger);
String[] verticalAugerScaleLabels = {"1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9","10"};
pyrolysisAugerMeter.setScaleLabels(verticalAugerScaleLabels);
pyrolysisAugerMeter.setTitle("Pyrolysis Auger RPM");
pyrolysisAugerMeter.setDisplayMaximumNeedle(true);
pyrolysisAugerMeter.setDisplayMinimumNeedle(true);
//pyrolysisAugerMeter.setDisplayMaximumValue(true);
pyrolysisAugerMeter.setMaxScaleValue(10);
pyrolysisAugerMeter.updateMeter(minPyrolysisAugerRPM);
pyrolysisAugerMeter.updateMeter(maxPyrolysisAugerRPM);
//feedstockAugerMeter
feedstockAugerMeter = new Meter(this,width - width / 4 - 60, 30);
feedstockAugerMeter.setMeterWidth(width / 4);
feedstockAugerMeter.setMinInputSignal(minInPyrolysisAuger);
feedstockAugerMeter.setMaxInputSignal(maxInPyrolysisAuger);
String[] feedstockAugerScaleLabels = {"1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9","10"};
feedstockAugerMeter.setScaleLabels(feedstockAugerScaleLabels);
feedstockAugerMeter.setTitle("Feedstock Auger RPM");
feedstockAugerMeter.setDisplayMaximumNeedle(true);
feedstockAugerMeter.setDisplayMinimumNeedle(true);
//feedstockAugerMeter.setDisplayMaximumValue(true);
feedstockAugerMeter.setMaxScaleValue(10);
feedstockAugerMeter.updateMeter(minFeedstockAugerRPM);
feedstockAugerMeter.updateMeter(maxFeedstockAugerRPM);
}
//-----------------
//end resizing code
//-----------------
//update the meters
horizontalAugerMeter.updateMeter(horizontalAugerRPM);
pyrolysisAugerMeter.updateMeter(pyrolysisAugerRPM);
feedstockAugerMeter.updateMeter(feedstockAugerRPM);
//----------------------
//display current values
//----------------------
//deprecated shape settings
//rectangle = createShape(RECT, 0, 0, width / 18, width / 75);
//rectangle.setFill(color(197,217,227));
//rectangle.setStroke(false);
//shape(rectangle, width / 10 + 60, width / 6.4 + 30);
//shape(rectangle, width - (width / 4) * 2 - (width / 8) + (width / 10), width / 6.4 + 30);
//shape(rectangle, width - (width / 4) - 60 + width / 10, width / 6.4 + 30);
//font settings
textFont(font, width / 80);
fill(0);
textAlign(CENTER);
text(str(horizontalAugerRPM) + " RPM", width / 8 + 60, width / 6.9 + 30);
text(str(pyrolysisAugerRPM) + " RPM", width - (width / 4) * 2, width / 6.9 + 30);
text(str(feedstockAugerRPM) + " RPM", width - width / 8 - 60, width / 6.9 + 30);
delay(200);
}
