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Support __FlashStringHelper for other string based methods #7

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@Jnesselr

I think it would be useful if other string methods supported __FlashStringHelper to be able to read directly from PROGMEM.

The methods that maybe should have a PROGMEM option:

  • WriteChars
  • file_Count
  • file_Dir
  • file_Erase
  • file_Exec
  • file_Exists
  • file_FindFirst
  • file_LoadFunction
  • file_LoadImageControl
  • file_Open
  • file_PlayWAV
  • file_PutS
  • file_Run
  • gfx_Button
  • putstr
  • writeString
  • file_FindFirstRet (only for Filename)

Unfortunately, I can't see a good way of doing this that doesn't involve lots of code duplication. It's more or less what happened for the println/print function. I don't mind writing the code and submitting a PR, I just wanted to get some clarification on whether it's the right approach to duplicate these functions. For all of them but WriteChars, I think they just pass into WriteChars. So the only function that would actually be different is WriteChars itself, every other function would be identical aside from type info.

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