Animated Boot Logo. Continuously repeat animation when boot logo duration is set to infinity.

[jhapke]

It would be cool if the boot logo animation continued to repeat until a button is pressed, only if the boot logo duration is set to infinity.

[ia]

TL; DR: I take it! At least I will try to experiment on this so @Ralim could have more free time for more important tasks.

Hello, @Ralim. I looked through related parts of the code very briefly so far. And I don't want to take any obligations not to let anyone down. But as far as I understand this feature looks implementable unless I'm not aware of some very tricky nuances as always. So I'm going to find some free time to experiment with this feature during this weekend so you could have more time for more important low-level improvements & features like that very nasty MHP30/GD problem. 🤞

[ia]

Status update: it seems it works but I need a bit more time to do additional checks & prepare pull request. Will try be back during the day.

[discip]

@ia
Are you planning on making this optional?
Since I don't want the boot logo to loop.

kind regards

[ia]

Since I don't want the boot logo to loop.

Don't worry.

Are you planning on making this optional?

Yes, exactly. That was one of the reasons why it took longer than I thought.

[Ralim]

An option here is we could add a flag to the logo file rather than an on-device setting. Or we could make the timeout option have two infinities; an infinite time and an infinite++ time that loops.

(just as a thought).

[discip]

To save precious space I tend to vote for the first option.

But what would be the cost for that?
Would we get multiple logo files (looping once / endless)?

[ia]

Builds with this feature are ready in case if anyone would like to try.

A few notes:

• if the boot logo is animated & the setting is to infinite, then animation is being shown on repeat until a button press;
• to set "old" behavior (roll logo once & halt), use 1 option value (as in one time) for the animation setting in the menu;
• no changes for a static logo: both "1" and "infinity" options do the same for a static logo as before.

[discip]

Done! 😊
Kudos to @ia.