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Tiny Arcade / Font use on screen
« Last post by johnbbq on August 07, 2018, 01:06:09 AM »Hi there. I have tried today to print a score in our game, but I'm not sure how the font system works.
I found an example in how fonts are used here: https://tinycircuits.com/blogs/learn/tinyscreen-battery-voltage
So I put the following lines in my setup() function:
display.setFont(thinPixel7_10ptFontInfo);
display.fontColor(0xFFFF, 0x0000);
Then in the loop function, i have an scoreUpdate() function called. Here is what it is in scoreUpdate:
display.setCursor(12, 12);
display.print(score);
(score is a global variable, initialized to 0)
As it stands, when I run the program everything on screen is "frozen" (player can't move, nothing is updating on the screen except the player and the score), and the 0 value for the score is displayed there and it's flickering constantly.
For drawing the screen I am using the drawbuffer function that came with the TinyArcade tutorial.
Could anyone point me to the right way of doing this?
Thanks,
I found an example in how fonts are used here: https://tinycircuits.com/blogs/learn/tinyscreen-battery-voltage
So I put the following lines in my setup() function:
display.setFont(thinPixel7_10ptFontInfo);
display.fontColor(0xFFFF, 0x0000);
Then in the loop function, i have an scoreUpdate() function called. Here is what it is in scoreUpdate:
display.setCursor(12, 12);
display.print(score);
(score is a global variable, initialized to 0)
As it stands, when I run the program everything on screen is "frozen" (player can't move, nothing is updating on the screen except the player and the score), and the 0 value for the score is displayed there and it's flickering constantly.
For drawing the screen I am using the drawbuffer function that came with the TinyArcade tutorial.
Could anyone point me to the right way of doing this?
Thanks,