/* An example showing rainbow colours on a 1.8" TFT LCD screen and to show a basic example of font use. This examples uses the hardware SPI only. Non-hardware SPI is just too slow (~8 times slower!) Updated by Bodmer Colours: code color 0x0000 Black 0xFFFF White 0xBDF7 Light Gray 0x7BEF Dark Gray 0xF800 Red 0xFFE0 Yellow 0xFBE0 Orange 0x79E0 Brown 0x7E0 Green 0x7FF Cyan 0x1F Blue 0xF81F Pink */ #include // Graphics and font library for ST7735 driver chip #include TFT_eSPI tft = TFT_eSPI(); // Invoke library, pins defined in User_Setup.h unsigned long targetTime = 0; byte red = 31; byte green = 0; byte blue = 0; byte state = 0; unsigned int colour = red << 11; void setup(void) { tft.init(); tft.setRotation(1); tft.fillScreen(ST7735_BLACK); targetTime = millis() + 1000; } void loop() { if (targetTime < millis()) { targetTime = millis()+10000; for (int i = 0; i<160; i++) { tft.drawFastVLine(i, 0, tft.height(), colour); switch (state) { case 0: green +=2; if (green == 64) { green=63; state = 1; } break; case 1: red--; if (red == 255) { red = 0; state = 2; } break; case 2: blue ++; if (blue == 32) { blue=31; state = 3; } break; case 3: green -=2; if (green ==255) { green=0; state = 4; } break; case 4: red ++; if (red == 32) { red = 31; state = 5; } break; case 5: blue --; if (blue == 255) { blue = 0; state = 0; } break; } colour = red<<11 | green<<5 | blue; } // The standard ADAFruit font still works as berfore tft.setTextColor(ST7735_BLACK, ST7735_BLACK); // Note these fonts do not plot the background colour tft.setCursor (12, 5); tft.print("Original ADAfruit font!"); // The new larger fonts do not use the .setCursor call, coords are embedded tft.setTextColor(ST7735_BLACK, ST7735_BLACK); // Do not plot the background colour // Overlay the black text on top of the rainbow plot (the advantage of not drawing the backgorund colour!) tft.drawCentreString("Font size 2",80,14,2); // Draw text centre at position 80, 12 using font 2 //tft.drawCentreString("Font size 2",81,12,2); // Draw text centre at position 80, 12 using font 2 tft.drawCentreString("Font size 4",80,30,4); // Draw text centre at position 80, 24 using font 4 tft.drawCentreString("12.34",80,54,6); // Draw text centre at position 80, 24 using font 6 tft.drawCentreString("12.34 is in font size 6",80,92,2); // Draw text centre at position 80, 90 using font 2 // Note the x position is the top of the font! // draw a floating point number float pi = 3.14159; // Value to print int precision = 3; // Number of digits after decimal point int xpos = 50; // x position int ypos = 110; // y position int font = 2; // font number only 2,4,6,7 valid. Font 6 only contains characters [space] 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 : a p m xpos+=tft.drawFloat(pi,precision,xpos,ypos,font); // Draw rounded number and return new xpos delta for next print position tft.drawString(" is pi",xpos,ypos,font); // Continue printing from new x position } }