Hello everyone!
As the subjects indicates, I try to display small symbols/text on the EA DIP180 grafic-display which is controlled by the Arduino Mega 2560. I have a little bit experience in text displays, but not in grafic displays.
My aim is to display a small menu, with different meals. (small symbol and name, for example a pizza+symbol of it). Later I might include the touch panel, if possible.
I used the initialization code from electronic assembly and modified it slightly. So my test code is running, I can set bytes and I have written a function to clear the display.
However, I am not familiar with writing text/symbols on a grafic display. Since it is much work to set each single bit correctly, I belive there must be better ways to do it.
I have read several tutorials about fonts and bitmaps. However, the used libaries I found are not compatible with my EA DIP180 display. Also, I cannot find an explicit explanation about how to display a simple letter or something.
I ordered a compatible font editor (also from electronic assembly). The already made fonts would probably be enough for my small project. Unfortunatly, there is no explicit example how to include these fonts.
The Link for the font editor pdf is here:
www.lcd-module.de/fileadmin/eng/pdf/zubehoer/usbstick-font.pdf
So my questions: May somebody provide me an example or a small introduction?
How can I include the already made fonts?
How can I display an array ? Does somebody have already a working function for that?
I am using Atmel Studio 7.0 (but Arduino IDE should work as well, since I open the Project as Arduino sketch)
Attached are my code, data sheets of the EA DIP180 Display, of the PT6520 and SD1520 controller,
I would really appreciate any help, since I am new to this topic =)
Thank you very much in advance and have a nice day!
Julian
ArduinoSketch4.zip (1.47 MB)