Text Area as Serial console

How-to
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Description

A feedback mechanism using the Text Area as serial console.

What MCU/Processor/Board and compiler are you using?

ESP32

What do you want to achieve?

I would like to give a user feedback using a text area as a serial console. Its a way of telling the user if the command he sent went ok or processed with error.

What have you tried so far?

none yet. just wants a heads up or soe suggestion how to implement it.

Code to reproduce

The code block(s) should be formatted like:

/*You code here*/

Screenshot and/or video

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Did you check the terminal example in the lvgvl examples?

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looks like the examples have moved, the link is 404.

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The example that was linked to isn’t available for v7 or v8.

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Is there another way of doing this with v7?
I would like to print incoming data into a large portion of the screen and be able to scroll through it, perhaps clear the content by clicking on a button.