Adafruit GFX¶
This is the core graphics library for all our displays, providing a common set of graphics primitives (points, lines, circles, etc.). It needs to be paired with a hardware-specific library for each display device we carry (to handle the lower-level functions).
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To download, click the DOWNLOAD ZIP button, uncompress and rename the uncompressed folder Adafruit_GFX. Confirm that the Adafruit_GFX folder contains Adafruit_GFX.cpp and Adafruit_GFX.h
Place the Adafruit_GFX library folder your
Useful Resources¶
Image2Code This is a handy Java GUI utility to convert a BMP file into the array code necessary to display the image with the drawBitmap function. Check out the code at ehubin’s GitHub repository:
drawXBitmap function You can use the GIMP photo editor to save a .xbm file and use the array saved in the file to draw a bitmap with the drawXBitmap function. See the pull request here for more details:
References¶
Used by¶
- Adafruit ILI9341 Display Library
- Adafruit PCD8544 Display Library
- Adafruit SSD1306 Display Library
- Adafruit ST7735 Display Library
- ILI9163C TFT Display Library