Giant font

ghost2

Hi,

I need to build a track timer for model cars and want to have a really large time display, preferrably a 13-15" VGA monitor with nothing but mins, secs and hundreds across the full screen. So, I am looking for a giant font and VGA driver. Is there such a thing? Although I have never written a display driver, suggestions for an existing driver suitable for modifications are also welcome.

Regards,

G

Publison

ghost2 wrote: »

Hi,

I need to build a track timer for model cars and want to have a really large time display, preferrably a 13-15" VGA monitor with nothing but mins, secs and hundreds across the full screen. So, I am looking for a giant font and VGA driver. Is there such a thing? Although I have never written a display driver, suggestions for an existing driver suitable for modifications are also welcome.

Regards,

G

Rayman

I think the stock VGA driver has scaling factors you can use (hx, hy?) to stretch a few tiles out to fill the screen.
It would be blocky, but big...

Peter Jakacki

The RPM display uses a graphics driver which allows the font character to be scaled without changing any other parameters so you can still have small text alongside large characters. I will have to adapt this for my Tachyon Forth as well.
@Ray: Doesn't changing the scaling in the stock driver only occur at compile time and affects the whole display? I'm pretty sure that this is the case as I try to use OTS objects if I can but I ended up doing the mixed scalable font graphics driver instead.

Bean

I recently received some help from the forum for just such a requirement.
Here is what I was able to make from it.
I think it should "fit the bill" nicely.

Bean

ghost2

Two days ago I had the problem of no giant font. Now I have the problem of choosing between two good solutions. Why is life never easy? :-)

Thanks everyone!

G