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General Category => Discussion - EVE => Topic started by: mrclnz on September 30, 2020, 07:00:43 AM

Title: How does the CleO draw needles?
Post by: mrclnz on September 30, 2020, 07:00:43 AM

As shown in https://www.ftdichip.com/Images/CleO/CleO50-TutorialPics.png it seems the MCU on the CleO somehow coerces the FT810 into drawing tapered lines… how is that done?

- Multiple overlapping lines?
- Somehow changing line width between points?
- Magic?

Title: Re: How does the CleO draw needles?
Post by: BRT Community on September 30, 2020, 11:28:41 AM

Hello,

On CleO needles are in an built widget, if you wish to recreate a needle on a standard EVE module you can do so with bitmaps.
A base needle bitmap could be created (make sure to use a bitmap format which supports the alpha channel), this can then be coloured, rotated or scaled to suit your needs.

Best Regards,
BRT Community

Title: Re: How does the CleO draw needles?
Post by: mrclnz on September 30, 2020, 01:47:19 PM

Oooh that's interesting. I've pondered about many ways to do it but not a bitmap. Thanks for the info