Community submission, reviewed before publishing rather than taken on trust.
The whole API surface it touches is ui.label / ui.canvas / ui.colors, sys.random,
timer.every(100) and two store keys for the high score. No network, no mesh
transmit, no filesystem, no dynamic code loading (load/loadstring/require/dofile),
no _G, metatable, debug or coroutine tricks, and no long-string or numeric-escape
obfuscation. Persistence is one bounded value. Nothing in it can reach past its
own window, so it needs no permission grant.
It also uses the real lifecycle contract — an app table with on_open/on_tick/
on_input/on_close, returned from the chunk — which is worth noting because the
published SDK page told people to do it a different way until today. He got it
right by reading the shipped apps.
Parse-checked against the firmware's own vendored Lua 5.4.7 rather than a system
interpreter, so the syntax is verified by the same parser the device runs. Not
run on hardware here; pisti87 reports it working on a T-Deck Plus.
deploy-apps.sh now also verifies that every apps.json entry has its
<id>/<ver>/<id>.lua and .json on disk. An entry pointing at a missing file lists
in the Store and then fails to install with nothing on screen to explain why —
the same failure the language check already prevents.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reported by Istvan on a T-Deck: back out of an app and it goes back correctly,
but the top dropdown opens at the same time.
beta_49 widened statusBarReaderBackCb from the Reader page to EVERY app page, so
the bar now closes a page on touch-DOWN (the cap-touch swipe detector can abort
the CLICKED, which used to trap people on touch-only boards). The comment claimed
the CLICKED that follows was then "a no-op" because close() clears
s_apppage_close. It is not: statusBarTapCb merely skips its app-page branch and
falls through every remaining branch to the control-center toggle at the end. So
the same tap went back AND popped the dropdown. Harmless while this was
Reader-only; wrong for every app page since beta_49.
Swallow the CLICKED that belongs to a press already used to go back, the same way
s_sb_shot_done suppresses the click after a screenshot hold. Timestamped rather
than a plain flag: the entire reason for closing on touch-DOWN is that the
matching CLICKED sometimes never arrives, and a sticky bool would then eat the
next genuine bar tap — a stale timestamp just expires.
Also adds scripts/deploy-apps.sh, which should have existed all along. The device
reads the app and language catalogs from firmware.wadamesh.com/apps/, a tree that
neither release.sh (out/firmware/) nor deploy-site.sh (deploy/site/) ships, so it
was only ever updated when someone remembered to rsync it by hand -- and twice
nobody did. Istvan is on hu.lang v8 while the repo has v11, and the SDK Test app
published earlier today never appeared in the store at all. The script validates
both catalogs first (parse, and every version a catalog points at must exist)
because a malformed one leaves a device with an empty store and no explanation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
