TFT and VGA Fonts

[ramante67]

Hi There,

I new here and I'm sorry if my question is to basic to you all.
I'm trying to create an interface using 8048S070 LCD and it works very well, by the way.
I would like to use the font #7 from the Annex library.

image.png

It is possíble to use this font with this command below?
GUI.Textline(x, y, width, height, "text" [,font] [,color_text] [,color_back] [,color_frame] [,alignment] [,margin] )

Where can I find the possible options for each one of this parameters?

Thanks you all!

Abraços,
Rogerio

[BeanieBots]

You can only use fonts 10,11,12 & 13
They can be loaded using a line like this.
tft.loadfont "/fonts/FreeSans12pt7b.bin", 10
It is possible to create your own with this utility
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To help you on your way, here are some that cicciocb has already done, plus a few of my own.
You might find the font OPEN_24_DisplaySt18pt7.bin close to what you want.

[BeanieBots]

The font looks like this:-

font.jpg

It should be quite easy to edit the zero to look like 7-segment.

[ramante67]

Olá @BeanieBots,
Thanks a lot for the fonts file. It's perfect to me.
But I'm stragling to figure out the options for the other parameters in the command line like "color_back" or "color_frame":

Txt1 =GUI.Textline(x, y, width, height, "text" [,font] [,color_text] [,color_back] [,color_frame] [,alignment] [,margin] )

There is any reference to those other parameters options? I searched at the forum but I was not able to find it.

Thanks again for the assistance.

Have a nice weekend.

Abraço,
Rogério

[ramante67]

I figured out the color names (I was trying for numbers) - white, black, yellow, etc.
There is any "transparent" option to put a text over the background image without borders or black backgorund as for the vgagui.textline command?
Abraços,
Rogerio

[BeanieBots]

Glad you figured it out.
A lot of the vga stuff is still experimental and not all is fully documented yet.
You can find help for VGA commands by trying the help for just GUI objects. (eg GUI.TEXTLINE)
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The parameter names describe well what they do. Anything enclosed in [ ] brackets is optional.
For colours, I prefer to use tft.rgb(R,G,B) so that you can specify the colour using 0-255 for each of R,G & B
The colour names are good but I can never remember them all for any other than fully saturated colours.
I don't think any of the GUI objects have a transparent property. I use vga.text.draw.