Cerberus and Seed OLED

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Hi All
Doing this

Bitmap bitmap = new Bitmap(100, 20);
            byte[] framebuffer = new byte[100 * 20 * 2];
            bitmap.DrawText("Hello World :)", Resources.GetFont(Resources.FontResources.small), GT.Color.Orange, 0, 5);

            Util.BitmapConvertBPP(bitmap.GetBitmap(), framebuffer, Util.BPP_Type.BPP16_RGB_BE);
            oledDisplay.FlushRawBitmap(0, 0, 100, 20, framebuffer);

Results in italicised text that doesnt start in the right place. (using the 7-23 Beta at the moment).
Anyone else seen this. I havent worked out how to use Skewworks Picomax yet so thought i would start with the info from the wiki http://wiki.tinyclr.com/index.php?title=OLED_Display_Module#Using_the_display_in_a_low_memory_situation

Also notice the colour difference between the pic and GT.Color.Orange

Cheers Hugh

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Seems like you have a wrong display size configured?

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Hmmm just tried the OLED with my spider :frowning:

Exception System.NullReferenceException - CLR_E_NULL_REFERENCE (1)

#### Message: 
#### Gadgeteer.Modules.Seeed.OledDisplay::Paint [IP: 0036] ####
#### Gadgeteer.Modules.Module+DisplayModule+SimpleGraphicsInterface::Redraw [IP: 000b] ####
#### Spider_OLED.Program::ProgramStarted [IP: 0024] ####
#### Spider_OLED.Program::Main [IP: 0015] ####

A first chance exception of type ‘System.NullReferenceException’ occurred in GTM.Seeed.OledDisplay.dll
OledDisplay ERROR : Painting error

All i did was this.

  oledDisplay.SimpleGraphics.DisplayText("Hello World!", Resources.GetFont(Resources.FontResources.small), GT.Color.Red, 10, 10);

again based on the wiki entry.

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@ HughB -

Wait for the next RC of the SDK. It should be out soon.

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Can’t wait :slight_smile:

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why can’t you wait? LOL just kidding … :wink:

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:wink:

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This is fixed in the Newest SDK to be released soon.

This is because of the conversion that you are using. The Conversion you are using is the Util.BPP_Type.BPP16_RGBBE instead of the Util.BPP_Type.BPP16BGR_BE. It is hard to notice the RGB is BGR.

You should be able to see the color difference if you retry it now.

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Awsome Aron
I didn’t see that there was a BGR rather than RGB. Dyslexia strikes again :slight_smile:

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The new SDK is out. You can try the OLED flushRAW function now. :slight_smile:

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HughB, I ran into a lot of the same issues when doing this debug window widget [link], some sample code I’d seen somewhere was coming out italic for me (changed the width from 128 to 127 seemed to fix), and I too had RGB not BGR, plus I was getting steadily marching corruption on whatever the last flushed rectangle was. Will have to see later if things are improved with new SDK.

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I’m going to grab the new sdk and give it a shot. I think making the text 127 is a good idea as the display is 128 which may be screwing up the data ( hence the italicising)
Thanks for the code share link too. Very useful cheers :slight_smile:

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The OLED drivers were changes with yesterday’s SDK. Can you try it and let us know if you have any issues?

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The drivers seem to have squished the bugs magnificently, and I’ve revised my code to match.

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Confimed working too :slight_smile: