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Description of the GLCD Font Editor in Bitmap2LCD

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Bitmap2LCD is a tool for programming small Graphic LCDs in embedded systems.

Description of the GLCD font editor in Bitmap2LCD (since V2.2)

Standard Edition

The example below shows the begin of the creating of an Editable font from scratch

On the font panel window at the left :

  • There is one single new Char is in the font grid (red arrow), all pixels are white
  • The font editor toolbar (brown arrow) Buttons: insert new char or paste a char, delete a char, copy a char,export to work canvas,import from work canvas, save font…
  • Above the Font Editor toolbar, the segmented font viewer buttons to hide/show the different Char segments (up to 12 segments)
  • The character displayer and pixels editor. (green arrow) For complicated Char edits, the Char can be exported into the work canvas, and re-imported after modification.

On the Outputs panel window at the right :

  • The Editable Font Script in the editor (blue arrow) , in the GLCD Font Editor mode, the editor gutter becomes yellow.
  • The Editable Font Script editor toolbar  (orange arrow), the values in the Font Script can only be modified in the edits there. It depends where the cursor is located in the script. The Normal Font / Segment Font switch is located on this toolbar too.

Color GLCD Displays

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In color GLCDs, each individual pixel is divided into three cells, or subpixels, which are colored red (R), green (G), and blue (B).

In GLCDs, the most important thing in interfacing color GLCD is to know how color is defined to a given pixel. Available formats depends on the brand and type of GLCD controller built in the choosen module :

12 bit per pixel pixel format (12bpp)
RRRRGGGG  4 bits red and 4 bits green 1st pixel BBBBRRRR   4 bits blue 1st pixel and 4 bits red 2nd  pixel GGGGBBBB  4 bits  green and 4 bits blue 2nd pixel

8 bit per pixel pixel format (8bpp)
RRRGGGBB  3 bits red, 3 bits green and 2 bits blue

16 bit per pixel pixel format (16bpp)
RRRRRGGG  5 bits red and 3 bits green 1st pixel GGGBBBBB  3 bits red and 5 bits blue 1st pixel

The Bitmap2LCD programming tool supports these GLCD color formats from V2.0.