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Draw text on LCD

How to use the vis

A simple hello world using the built in standard font:

drag and drop this VI snippet into a LabVIEW block diagram.

One font is built in the application. Additional fonts can be loaded at runtime from the file system (see snippet below).
The loaded fonts are stored in ram starting with font number 1. The built in font is still available at index 0.


Explore the options:
GUI snippet
drag and drop this VI snippet into a LabVIEW block diagram.

Or with this FDM only snippet:
GUI snippet
drag and drop this VI snippet into a LabVIEW block diagram.

Download fonts

Download fonts: fonts.zip.
The fonts must be stored on an onboard memory such as SD-Card or NAND-Flash.
For customized fonts please contact Schmid Engineering (tech.support@schmid-engineering.ch).

Transparent Text

You can draw text directly on the background. To do so set bg color as 1:
transparent text or

snippets/draw_text.txt · Last modified: 2017/11/07 22:26 by 127.0.0.1