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PLUS+1 Software => Displays => Topic started by: hproffitt on July 19, 2018, 09:47:09 PM

Title: DP200 large font
Post by: hproffitt on July 19, 2018, 09:47:09 PM

Creating a very simple display program for a DP200, so older screen editor, and would like the font to be quite large.  The display is only to show 2-3 digits.  Whenever I try to install a font any larger than a 36 size I receive the following error, "Font file size exceeds 65535 bytes. Please try with smaller font size."

Is there any way to accomplish this that I am not remembering?

Title: Re: DP200 large font
Post by: hproffitt on July 30, 2018, 10:02:14 PM

Took this up with the helpdesk.  No known work-around, fyi.

Title: Re: DP200 large font
Post by: BRIan on August 01, 2018, 12:49:50 AM

I've done this by creating graphics for the numbers 0 - 9, then using some logic turn the right ones on to represent the number required. I had 4 digits with dp ie 999.9

Title: Re: DP200 large font
Post by: hproffitt on August 01, 2018, 05:52:08 PM

I had considered that, but for as small as this project is it really wouldn't be justified to develop.

Thanks for the suggestion!

Title: Re: DP200 large font
Post by: oiltronic on December 21, 2018, 04:32:35 AM

I use the same solution as BRIan.  It's actually really easy. 

• Type large numbers in any image editor (even MS Paint) and save as images, one at a time, closely cropped.
• Add images to screen editor
• Create an image list, in sequence, so the index value matches the image number.
• Duplicate the list for each digit.
• Back in the main application, split the value to be displayed into "ones", "tens", etc.
• Connect split values to the image lists.  Done.

Other details like blanking out unused leading digits (enable list with flags like "enable_tens" when "tens">0), negative sign, and decimal points are easy enough to figure out.