prestonbrown/helixscreen v1.1.0-beta.3

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v1.1.0-beta.3

The third beta of 1.1. It fixes two problems that beta.2 testers hit: installing the HelixPrint
plugin from the screen, and updates that ignored the beta channel. It also puts the E-stop
on the navigation bar, makes the 3D preview usable on slower graphics chips, and gives home
screen tiles a wider range of sizes. Changing the language now updates text that used to
stay in the old language until a restart.

Upgrading from beta.2?

• Installing the HelixPrint plugin from the screen works. In beta.2, every install from a release
  failed with "Install script not found". Try it again after you update.
• Updates follow your update channel. The install script and Moonraker's update manager
  now read the channel set in Settings > Updates. Before, they always picked the latest
  stable release, so an update could take a beta tester back to 1.0.
• The E-stop moved to the navigation bar. While a print is running, it sits at the end of
  the bar on every screen, including over dialogs and number pads. The separate E-stop
  buttons on Home, Controls and Print Status are gone.

Added

Printing

• E-stop on the navigation bar - shown whenever a job holds the machine, and kept above
  screens, dialogs and number pads. The lock screen and fullscreen camera keep their own.
• The print file screen has a portrait layout - options scroll above a Delete/Print row
  that stays put, and pre-print options are checkable tiles in two columns, so long labels
  wrap instead of running under a switch.
• Bed drying heats a plain chamber heater too - on a printer with a chamber heater and no
  dryer, the drying run holds the chamber at the material's air temperature and turns it off
  when the run ends.
• Tool remapping rewrites TOOL= and INITIAL_TOOL in the print file, and warns about
  start-macro values it leaves alone. The warning appears only when your picks move a tool.

3D preview on slower boards

• The 3D preview no longer stalls the screen on a slow graphics chip - still frames are
  drawn in slices, and a lighter view is drawn while your finger is down. Walls are shaded
  as smooth surfaces, and still frames are sharper.
• Large files stay in 3D - a file with too many triangles for the graphics chip gets a
  simplified 3D view instead of dropping to 2D.
• Small files follow the print in 3D on low-memory boards - a Pi 3 now loads a Benchy-size
  file fully during a print instead of always streaming it.

Home screen

• Tiles size more freely - most tiles shrink to half a cell, and grow past a cell and a
  half with a larger icon. Fan and sensor tiles keep their name and shrink the icon instead.
  The print controls tile stacks when tall and drops its labels when narrow.
• G-code console widget - at two cells tall it shows the printer's latest output.
• Drop a widget on another to swap them (#1503) while editing the home screen.

Other

• Hide the on-screen keyboard while a USB keyboard is attached (#1572) - the Hardware
  Keyboard setting in Settings > Touch & Input.
• Debug bundles describe the host (#1692) - the Linux distribution, failed services, and
  other programs that might be fighting over the display.
• Pressed feedback on the cards and rows that showed none (#1297).

Fixed

Installing and updating

• Plugin install from the screen - release builds now include the plugin's install
  script.
• Updates stay on your channel - beta and dev installs update to beta releases instead of
  the latest stable one.
• --uninstall removes a home-directory install (#1600), and refuses an install folder it
  cannot safely delete.
• Free-space checks work on BusyBox systems, and a printer that ignores a custom install
  folder still migrates an existing install (#1674).

Changing the language

• The whole screen follows a language change - home widgets, tool, filament system,
  temperature graph and preheat text, Check for Updates status and the timelapse button
  update right away instead of after a restart.
• Durations use the current language, and capitalized labels work for Cyrillic, Greek and
  accented Latin text.

Filament

• Filament diameter comes from your printer (#1504) instead of assuming 1.75mm, including
  for filaments HelixScreen creates in Spoolman.
• Restoring a tool remap after a print is more reliable (#1684) - if the filament system
  refuses the restore, it is retried once it will accept it, never during a print, and a tool
  that was unmapped before the print stays unmapped.

Screen and touch

• The screen no longer freezes while Wi-Fi status is read (#1023) - Settings, the network
  tile, the setup wizard and the Network screen read it in the background. Each read could
  block the screen for up to 10 seconds.
• Forget and the Wi-Fi on/off switch are hidden on systems that cannot do them (#1429).
• The touchscreen is detected properly on the Snapmaker U1 and other boards whose build has
  no libinput, so touch calibration detection runs.
• The layer counter no longer jumps back at the start of a print.
• The last print card keeps its thumbnail, retries it when you come back to Home, and
  never shows a picture for a file that is gone.
• Print Status at 480x272 keeps both icon and label on its action buttons.
• The prep-time estimate appears the first time you open a file's details.

Changed

• Faster drawing - the toolhead, spool, filament path and darkened backdrop draw with less
  work, and the screen redraws only when something changed.
• Network library messages appear in HelixScreen's log (#1317), tagged [libhv].