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tft_text

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2024 Brad Barnett

Copyright (c) 2020-2023 Russ Hughes

Copyright (c) 2019 Ivan Belokobylskiy

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

The file is based on Russ Hughes's st7789_mpy driver from https://github.com/russhughes/st7789_mpy

which is based on devbis' st7789py_mpy module from https://github.com/devbis/st7789py_mpy.

Functions:

text

text(canvas, font, text, x0, y0, color=WHITE, background=BLACK)

Draw text on display in specified font and colors. 8 and 16 bit wide fonts are supported.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
font module

font module to use.

required
text str

text to write

required
x0 int

column to start drawing at

required
y0 int

row to start drawing at

required
color int

565 encoded color to use for characters

WHITE
background int

565 encoded color to use for background

BLACK