topic How to extend emWin library font? in LPC Microcontrollers https://community.nxp.com/t5/LPC-Microcontrollers/How-to-extend-emWin-library-font/m-p/515129#M1034 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><STRONG>Content originally posted in LPCWare by harper on Sat Oct 26 08:43:29 MST 2013</STRONG><BR /><SPAN>The emWin library comes with small text fonts. These could be magnified to 32 pixels but this would give a worse appearance as the digital fonts can give. The digital fonts include only the characters '0' ..' 9' '+' '-' '.'</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Since the digial font </SPAN><STRONG>GUI_FontD32 </STRONG><SPAN>doesn't provide all but one character I think it would be worth to extend this font. I just need one additonal character '/'.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I was able to create the appropriate </SPAN><STRONG>GUI_FONT_PROP_EXT</STRONG><SPAN> structure that holds the information for the additional character. I realized that the </SPAN><STRONG>GUI_FONT </STRONG><SPAN>member </SPAN><STRONG>pPropExt </STRONG><SPAN>must point to a sorted linked list of </SPAN><STRONG>GUI_FONT_PROP_EXT </STRONG><SPAN>elements. I've built a sorted list and got my new character included. The problem is that I get a scrambled pattern. Even the dump of the existing character bitmaps appears as unrelated to the pixels drawn to screen.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>What is the way to add a character to a library font (where no C file is available)?</SPAN><BR /></BODY></HTML> Wed, 15 Jun 2016 17:14:59 GMT lpcware 2016-06-15T17:14:59Z How to extend emWin library font? https://community.nxp.com/t5/LPC-Microcontrollers/How-to-extend-emWin-library-font/m-p/515129#M1034 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><STRONG>Content originally posted in LPCWare by harper on Sat Oct 26 08:43:29 MST 2013</STRONG><BR /><SPAN>The emWin library comes with small text fonts. These could be magnified to 32 pixels but this would give a worse appearance as the digital fonts can give. The digital fonts include only the characters '0' ..' 9' '+' '-' '.'</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Since the digial font </SPAN><STRONG>GUI_FontD32 </STRONG><SPAN>doesn't provide all but one character I think it would be worth to extend this font. I just need one additonal character '/'.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I was able to create the appropriate </SPAN><STRONG>GUI_FONT_PROP_EXT</STRONG><SPAN> structure that holds the information for the additional character. I realized that the </SPAN><STRONG>GUI_FONT </STRONG><SPAN>member </SPAN><STRONG>pPropExt </STRONG><SPAN>must point to a sorted linked list of </SPAN><STRONG>GUI_FONT_PROP_EXT </STRONG><SPAN>elements. I've built a sorted list and got my new character included. The problem is that I get a scrambled pattern. Even the dump of the existing character bitmaps appears as unrelated to the pixels drawn to screen.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>What is the way to add a character to a library font (where no C file is available)?</SPAN><BR /></BODY></HTML> Wed, 15 Jun 2016 17:14:59 GMT https://community.nxp.com/t5/LPC-Microcontrollers/How-to-extend-emWin-library-font/m-p/515129#M1034 lpcware 2016-06-15T17:14:59Z