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In a previous lecture, he learned how to use the next seven to one nine displayed in its CINQUERA with

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four displays configuration to display random pixels.

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In this lecture, I'll show you how to display a bit of text, although you'll see the text display

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capabilities are not that amazing and there are few limitations.

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So the wiring, of course, hasn't changed exactly the same as the previous lecture.

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So let's jump right into the software side here.

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The software for the text demonstration is identical to that of the random ality demonstration, except

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that down here we are using the text function to display just four letters at this position here, zero

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zero.

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So we start from the top of the display and then use color zero, which is unlet, which means that

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the light is going to be turned off.

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So then a bit earlier, right here in line 39, I'm using field, but this time I'm passing one to the

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field function instead of zero that I did in the previous example.

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It means that the field command, the field function is going to turn all of the latest on the display

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on.

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Therefore, by printing text with Callard zero, I'd be using black on white to print out the latest

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ABCDE.

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I've also said the brightness to five and by calling show and making those letters visible.

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So I'm going to hit control, see on my keyboard to stop the random pixels example and then.

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Start the text, there you go.

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So the text looks like this one, it's black black text on white background and obviously this red background,

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because of the color of the early days, has a dark on.

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Right.

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Can it do a couple of changes?

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Let's see what capitals look like.

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And then I'm going to change the field to zero and the color of the text to one right at that.

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And it looks like this is interesting, that did not occur, it did not appear because I did not tight-fitting.

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All right.

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And of course, he can also display numbers.

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So there's numbers that I mentioned earlier, there are some limitations with using text in with these

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displays and with this particular library, for once, you can't change the size of the library.

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It is the size that takes up the whole individual eight by eight display to display one single character

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and another limitation that are found to be quite annoying is that you can't rotate your characters,

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so you have to use your display in this vertical orientation can really go horizontally and have your

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characters turned by 90 degrees in a horizontal way.

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You can dig into the driver itself.

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And if your python knowledge is good enough, you'll be able to make those changes in the code itself

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and then have perhaps a rotation function that allows you to rotate by 90 degrees.

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But without making modifications to the library itself, you can't at least I wasn't able to find a

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library that can do this.

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So if you can live with these limitations of this, Max, seven to one nine library, and especially

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if you want to use it for displaying graphics, using the graphics primitives, I think it is a good

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idea.

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Tootles.