Canvas graphics library for small embedded systems

• Introduction
• Key Features
• Why canvas library
• Setting up
• License

Introduction

Small canvas graphics library for small embedded systems

Key Features

• Supports
  • monochrome color buffers
  • RGB 332 color buffers
  • RGB 565 color buffers
• Small flash footprint
• Easy to use
  • Used in ssd1306 library

Example:

// Create 8-bit RGB (3-3-2) canvas 64x64 pixels
NanoCanvas<64,64,8> canvas;
canvas.clear();
canvas.drawLine(10,10,30,23);
// To get width, height, and access the bitmap data use methods below
// canvas.width(), canvas.height(), canvas.getData()
// If you need to know, how many bytes in single canvas row, use
// canvas.pitch() method.

Why canvas library

The main idea is to have small flash footprint. The test demo example can be compiled either with Adafruit GFX support or canvas GFX support. Just only having Adafruit GFX 8-bit buffer defined in your application requires 6KiB of flash (for AVR), while the same code with canvas gfx library uses less than 1KiB of flash.

Setting up

Setting up for Arduino from github sources)

• Download source from https://github.com/lexus2k/canvas
• Put the sources to Arduino/libraries/canvas/ folder

Using with plain avr-gcc:

• Download source from https://github.com/lexus2k/canvas
• Build the library (variant 1)

  cd canvas/src && make -f Makefile.avr MCU=your_mcu

  • Link library to your project (refer to Makefile.avr in examples folder).
• Build demo code (variant 2)

  cd canvas/tools && ./build_and_run.sh -p avr -m your_mcu test/test

For esp32:

• Download source from https://github.com/lexus2k/canvas
• Put downloaded sources to components/canvas/ folder.
• Compile your project as described in ESP-IDF build system documentation

For more information about this library, please, visit https://github.com/lexus2k/canvas. Doxygen documentation can be found at github.io site. If you found any problem or have any idea, please, report to Issues section.

License

The library is free. If this project helps you, you can give me a cup of coffee.

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2016-2019, Alexey Dynda

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