From ef7ed47ac3ca6cbd201b1b1f35d588ffdaed636c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: devsaurus Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 22:58:58 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] document XBM conversion --- README.md | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 90ec76e3..299841c6 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -402,7 +402,8 @@ u8glib comes with a wide range of fonts for small displays. Since they need to b They'll be available as `u8g.` in Lua. #####Bitmaps -Bitmaps and XBMs are supplied as strings to `drawBitmap()` and `drawXBM()`. This off-loads all data handling from the u8g module to generic methods for binary files. See `lua_examples/u8glib/u8g_bitmaps.lua`. Binary files can be uploaded with [nodemcu-uploader.py](https://github.com/kmpm/nodemcu-uploader). +Bitmaps and XBMs are supplied as strings to `drawBitmap()` and `drawXBM()`. This off-loads all data handling from the u8g module to generic methods for binary files. See `lua_examples/u8glib/u8g_bitmaps.lua`. +In contrast to the source code based inclusion of XBMs into u8glib, it's required to provide precompiled binary files. This can be performed online with [Online-Utility's Image Converter](http://www.online-utility.org/image_converter.jsp): Convert from XBM to MONO format and upload the binary result with [nodemcu-uploader.py](https://github.com/kmpm/nodemcu-uploader). #####Unimplemented functions - [ ] Cursor handling