Hi there, I’m new to Ardunio and this forum so be gentle and detailed …
I want to display a large red cross (+) like a first aid symbol over the animations provided by Aurora. (probably 16x16 pixles)
I am using a teensy 3.2 and a smartmatrix shield running Aurora on a 32x32 matrix.
I have tried setting a message with the fonts set to off but all of the available fonts are too small so whilst successful… not delivering the outcome I desire.
Thus I believe I either need to somehow add a larger font, add a gif layer or somehow create an indexed colour layer… none of which i know how to do.
Hey, sorry for the delayed response. I don’t know of any way to do this with the options included in Aurora, but should be fairly simple to implement with a few code changes. Do you want this cross to always show over animated gifs?
Thank you for getting back to me and no need to appologise for delay I appreciate your help
In an ideal world it would be great to be able to switch between the cross and scrolling text… Thus I wondered if it was possible to simply add a much larger font to the equation and then just using the ‘+’ symbol but i do not know how the fonts work or where they are packaged. is there a thread on this that you have encountered?
that said though simply having the cross always on top would suffice… ideally with the Aurora underlay rather then an animated GIF as it is fantastic.
oh… I think the cross would probably be 18 pixels high/wide 6 pixels thick, centered, but if it was to be a font it would need to be much bigger as the ‘+’ is generally about 1/3 the size of a uppercase character
Hi Judd, unfortunately right now fonts in SmartMatrix are limited to 8 pixels wide. There’s an open issue to improve this, but it won’t be coming anytime soon.
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