fbsplash enhancement - text rendering, animations...

[Michele Sanges]

George,

as you have seen, months ago I repeatedly sent to the list my text 
rendering patch, but nobody has taken it in consideration.

Anyway, by means the file fbsplash.cfg file it's possible to specify the 
position, the color and the size of the text displayed, but I agree with 
you that hardcoded fonts allow very restrictive usages. For this reason 
I hoped in a feedback from the list, but unfortunately is not arrived.

So I have transformed the fbsplash applet in a indipendent application, 
I have added to it the text rendering functionality (sufficient for my 
purposes) and at current time i'm using it during the boot stage of my 
embedded systems.

Thanks for all your considerations, I'm very interested in your patch. I 
will look into your code and eventually I will include your 
modifications in my fbsplash indipendent application.

Best regards.


Il 01/09/2009 13:06, Jiří Gabriel ha scritto:
> Hello.
> I use the BusyBox in embedded kiosk like system. Whole system is running
> on framebuffer interface. Graphical boot is very useful for me, but the
> color depth is only 16bpp and unusable therefore I started to modifying
> fbsplash for other resolutions and other capabilities using text
> rendering patch from mailing lists. Only one size of font, special font
> generating and hardcoding into application is very unusable for many
> people. The psf consolefonts is available and usable...
> After finish all my modifications to fbsplash it is now usable for me,
> and I hope for others to, but there may be a small problem the file is
> now too big (7k) for BusyBox.
> In any case if you or somebody else are interested you can download it
> from http://tykef.havlinda.net/programovani/fbsplash. You find there
> source, description and example of using this applet.
>
> Jiří Gabriel.


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Michele Sanges