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ssd1306: Introduction
The official SSD1306 OLED display driver supports a single 8x8 pixel monospaced
font. Users of the 128x64 displays in particular may wish to use larger fonts.
This provides a means of extending the official driver to support this. Suitable
font files may be created from standard ttf
or otf
files using the utility
presented here.
Release notes
V0.2 17th Dec 2016 The Writer
class now uses the framebuf pixel method. This
trades a 2:1 drop in performance for portability between devices with different
mappings. File ssd1306_drv.py is no longer provided as the framebuf scrolling
bug is now fixed.
Note that framebuf scrolling does not clear the exposed region of the screen. This is by design but see issue #2692.
Files
- ssd1306_test.py A simple test program.
- ssd1306.py A snapshot of the current official driver.
- writer.py A generic Writer class. Keeps track of the text insertion point over multiple fonts, handles newline and vertical scrolling if required.
In addition several font files are provided as samples.
Getting started
Edit ssd1306_test.py
to match your hardware, namely whether it uses SPI or
I2C and the value of HEIGHT. The file contains details of how to wire the device
to a Pyboard. It is untested on other platforms, but I'd expect it to be
portable to any device supporting the official driver. If in doubt, install and
test this first.
Copy files 1-3 and freesans20.py
to the target and issue
import ssd1306_test
Principle of Operation
Font files are converted to Python modules for ease of use and also (optionally) to enable the modules to be frozen as bytecode to reduce RAM requirements.
The user program should import all fonts which are to be used and declare a
Writer
instance for each one. Rendering text at the current insertion point
is then simply a matter of issuing the appropriate writer's printstring
method. After issuing all such calls required by your application the display
should be updated by issuing
ssd.show()
The Writer class
The principal interaction with the driver is via this class. One instance should
be created for each font in use. Its function is to keep track of the text
insertion point over successive uses with multiple fonts and to handle newline
characters and vertical scrolling. Its behaviour when text overruns the end of
a line or the bottom of the screen may be controlled using its set_clip
method.
Methods
Constructor
This takes thessd
display instance and the font module as mandatory args.printstring
Takes a text string as argument and renders it at the current insertion point. Respects newline characters.
Class methods
set_textpos
Mandatory integer argsrow
,col
defined in pixels relative to the top left hand corner of the display. Sets the current text insertion point. The coordinates of a glyph refer to its top left corner. The initial default is (0,0) with text being rendered at the top left of the display.set_clip
Mandatory boolean argsrow_clip
,col_clip
. These define behaviour when text overruns the physical width or height of the display. By default text overrunning the display width will continue on the next row. Settingcol_clip
overrides this such that overrunning text is lost. Similarly, by default text overrunning the bottom of the display will cause text above to scroll up to accommodate it. Settingrow_clip
will override this behaviour causing text to be clipped.
Use of font_to_py.py
To convert font files to Python for use with this driver the default (vertical)
mapping and bit order should be used. The only optional argument which may be
needed is -f
if fixed-width rendering is desired.
License
Any code placed here is released under the MIT License (MIT).
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Copyright (c) 2016 Peter Hinch
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