the goal here is to play a gif or other | adafruit | Page 1

crimson night Dec 27, 2022, 8:54 PM

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Here is a version that loads an image, animates it if it is a spritesheet

all icons must be 64x64
or a spritesheet that is mutiple lines or columns of 64 (64x256 would be 4 frames)
all images are in the images subdirectory
I use the adjoined bmp spritesheet as default (it's a rotating play icon)

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📎 code.py

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a few more notes:

ICON_DURATION is how long the icon is displayed or animated
FRAME_DURATION is the minimum duration of a frame, it can't probably do very fast (I definitely set it to a valu it can't do)
if the animation is interrupted by moving the encoder, it uses continue to skip the loop and display the next icon
there is no obvious indication that you switched between menus that don't have an icon, so maybe we could add a flash or short black screen before showing each image

serene nest Dec 27, 2022, 9:10 PM

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@crimson night uhhhhh

crimson night Dec 27, 2022, 9:11 PM

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aHA, and what is that error ?

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maybe an image that is not 64x64 or a multiple of that ?

serene nest Dec 27, 2022, 9:15 PM

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crimson night aHA, and what is that error ?

ill pull up the serial monitor

serene nest Dec 27, 2022, 9:18 PM

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crimson night maybe an image that is not 64x64 or a multiple of that ?

ah that is it

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also

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is there any way that the sprite sheet i play

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could it be a different resolution

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i want to play this as the default

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sprite sheet

crimson night Dec 27, 2022, 9:27 PM

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we can special case it

serene nest Dec 27, 2022, 9:27 PM

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crimson night we can special case it

how do we do this

crimson night Dec 27, 2022, 9:29 PM

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though I think it would be easier to have a convention, what if we say that all images are 64 high, and spritesheets are vertical, we can then accomodate any width

serene nest Dec 27, 2022, 9:34 PM

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crimson night though I think it would be easier to have a convention, what if we say that all ...

ok

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that should work

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how do we do it though

crimson night Dec 27, 2022, 9:42 PM

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📎 code.py

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serene nest Dec 27, 2022, 9:46 PM

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crimson night

it works :D

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thanks

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time for github

crimson night Dec 27, 2022, 10:06 PM

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this version changes key colors first, by moving the call to display_image into App.switch() (and allows overwriting the icon file name in the app data)

📎 code.py

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also I was thinking you could name the images with the same name as the macro files instead of numbers ?

serene nest Dec 27, 2022, 10:20 PM

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crimson night also I was thinking you could name the images with the same name as the macro fi...

well ya

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i was just trying to keep it all simple

crimson night Dec 27, 2022, 10:22 PM

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yeah it would make it more complicated 😛