Octal's driver for T6963C GLCD

rmteo · Post by **rmteo** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 3:12 pm

Thanks to Octal for providing the T6963 driver. This is my first example using it on a 240x128 GLCD.

Looking forward to your future additions to this. Thanks again.

Steven · Post by **Steven** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 3:38 pm

I've got to say - that looks rather impressive. Thanks for sharing.

rmteo · Post by **rmteo** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 8:04 pm

Here is another example:

Toley · Post by **Toley** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 10:21 pm

Hello rmteo,

This is really nice. But where did you get those BIG numbers ?

rmteo · Post by **rmteo** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 11:54 pm

I generated those large numbers from a font that was downloaded from the web. Google "Transistor Font" and you should find several places to get it.

Toley · Post by **Toley** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 2:52 pm

Thank you rmteo for your answer and also thanks for asking this question about creating only numbers from 0 to 9.

http://www.sfcompiler.co.uk/forum/viewt ... =converter

It help me a lot. Searching the forum is always a good practice

Edit: Another question rmteo, Font converter only allow 40x40 pixels font. Your numbers seems bigger than that!!! How did you do that?

rmteo · Post by **rmteo** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 9:25 pm

Get the "GLCD Font Creator" plug-in from here:
http://www.sfcompiler.co.uk/wiki/pmwiki ... er.Plugins

Toley · Post by **Toley** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 3:16 am

I was thinking the actual version of GLCD Font Creator can only generate vertical scan font.

octal · Post by **octal** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 8:47 am

Toley wrote:I was thinking the actual version of GLCD Font Creator can only generate vertical scan font.

Actual version DOES NOT work for fonts scanned along x as required by the T6963c driver. He has certainly used export as FIXED WIDTH fonts. Fixed Widht fonts works the same for both X or Y directlions. I think he does that as LCD fonts are almost fixed width.

You can still use David's "Font Converter" from the plugins page http://www.sfcompiler.co.uk/wiki/pmwiki ... er.Plugins (also provided by default with Swordfish install). It works for all fonts in all directions.

Regards
octal

Toley · Post by **Toley** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 2:15 pm

Thank you very much octal and rmteo, I finally understand and I can display big numbers with fixed width.

rmteo · Post by **rmteo** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 2:21 pm

Octal, I have created and used proportional large fonts using your font creator with the T6963C. In fact, the large fonts in the pictures are proportional width.

octal · Post by **octal** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 2:32 pm

maybe it's a simple coincidence. It's working (I think) because fonts drawing routines are using default char drawing routine provided by the GLCD lib, which draws chars using SetPixel (defined in the T6963c driver I provided).

Anyway, the new GLCD Font Creator provides UNICODE fonts importing and support

Regards
octal

Steven · Post by **Steven** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 5:05 pm

When I was writing the S1D13700 driver, it was quicker to display fonts pixel by pixel than it was to write fonts byte-by-byte in the x direction. Hence a y-direction font was OK. If you have followed the same approach, then this will be why a y-font works OK.

rmteo · Post by **rmteo** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 6:44 pm

Octal, do you have any updates for your T6963C driver? Thanks

octal · Post by **octal** » Wed Jan 27, 2010 9:21 am

Hello rmteo,

I didnt finished polishing the new version (which will support multiple virtual screens hadling).
I'm a bit busy with finishing the XGLCD project, and I'll for sure get back to the T6963c module right after finishing a very urgent work.
Also the new version of GLCD Font Creator (pro and the SF plugin) is almost ready. I need just to got 2 or 3 days free to be able to check, package all that and upload everything.

Regards