Help: Altering the existing font "Character8x7" for GLCD to make a Degree-Symbol

[chris11jed]

Hello,

I am talking about the GLCD and GLCDFont Libraries.

Where is the @Character8x7 module stored?

I want to make a copy of it and add a Degree Symbol ( ° ) if that's possible.

I do have the GLCD Font Creator, but I hate it with a passion as I can never get the thing to properly work (yes, it's correctly installed).... I just find it really unintuitive to use ...and when I go to "Import an existing System Font", that doesn't work with the GLCD.

I'd much rather just see the @Character8x7 code, like bring that up as a module or something in my project(s), see how the characters in that font are arranged into byte-arrays, see how they configures the bits to make-up a number or letter, and then add in my own on an unused or existing usable entry (say, the 'DEL' '127' character, I rewrite the byte-array for that into a Degree Symbol).

I've tried a lot of things as work-arounds, but nothing shows up on the GLCD.

And when I have used the Font Creator, making a new character which should be a degree-symbol, the font either displays wrong, or not at all.

Also, I've tried using the ASCII Chart (176)-being the degree symbol, or close enough to what I want, but without any success.

Can someone please help?

I'm using the PIC18F87K22, on EasyPIC PRO V7, with the GLCD, GLCD+GLCD-Fonts in library and have set the font as @Character8x7

Is there a way to make the GLCD display a degree Symbol ( ° )??????
More so, where is this font stored? And can I copy and alter it for my purpose of getting a degree symbol to display on the GLCD?

Thanks
Chris

[filip]

Hi,

I believe I have answered you here :
viewtopic.php?f=97&t=77311

Regards,
Filip.

[chris11jed]

Hi Filip,

For me, this link links back to this post.

But I know the reply you meant, and have successfully tried out your suggestions. Thanks again for that.

Just in case anyone else is wondering what your reply was, I'll copy/paste the gist of it below:

The degree symbol is on the 248th place in this font, you may write it as :

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Glcd_Write_Char(248,  48, 1, 2)

You may see other character positions like this :

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dim i as word
dim txt as string[5]
...
for i = 0 to 1023
  Glcd_Write_Char(i,  48, 1, 2)
  WordToStr(i, txt)
  Glcd_Write_Text(txt,  60, 1, 2)
  delay_ms(1000)
  Glcd_Fill(0x00)
next i

The font is defined in the Glcd library for which we don't share the source code due to the company's policy.

Regards,
Filip.

Again, thank you for your time Filip

Chris