I have a OLED screen want to add some extra images for my proffieboard 2.2

Sabersense · October 18, 2024, 8:03am

That’s only needed if you’re using OS 6 or earlier. Under OS7, you don’t need to do it because the system is able to check and work with combinations of parameters from different config.ini files.

If memory serves, the issue prior to OS7 was that since many fonts have their own config.ini files, those files always took priority, and if a parameter wasn’t included in them, it would use the system default of that parameter. This made it tricky to have one oled folder shared across the entire system because it meant to change config.ini oled settings, you would have to do it in every font folder - if you tried it in a shared (common) oled folder, that oled config.ini would get dumped the moment the system found one in the font folder - even if that font folder one didn’t have any oled settings listed.

But then the Prof changed the system so that ProffieOS could take one set of parameters from a shared folder, and unless the font folder config.ini specifically over-rode those parameters, it would continue to use them rather than dumping them and going for system defaults.

This thread tells the full story of how it came about:

OLED Newbie Questions ProffieOS

I’m new to the OLED party, but I’ve been experimenting over the last couple of days. I’ve got it working thanks to NoSloppy’s excellent video tutorial series, but I have a few little questions: I’ve noticed that regardless of the length of a boot animation, it seems to play around five times. Is this controllable in the config somewhere? I know you can use the bpm thing to stop animations looping, but the way I’ve built my animations doesn’t yet include the slices that Brian talks about to split out the frames. All I did was grab a CFX animation as a single bitmap and add my own layers on top of each frame in Affinity Photo (Photoshop equivalent). I guess I will need to get to grips with the slicer thing in GIMP. WIP. Kind of related to the above, is there anywhere I can specify how long the OLED should display a given single frame or animation? I seem to recall reading something about editing the font’s individual config file, but all the ones I’ve looked at just have a humstart number and nothing else. I’m guessing that since the files are dealt with the same as wavs, that you can’t stack them so more than one file plays in sequence? The reason I ask is making long clip files that are 128 pixels by about 10,000 pixels could become a little unwieldy in the picture editing software if you want “edits”, although I guess it would word and might well be easier than any alternative. The book says to wire it to the SD + and regular ground. Does this mean it will never power down until you use the kill key? If so, is there any harm in running the negative from an LED FET and using a bladestyle to power it down after, say, 15 minutes of inactivity? As always, any thoughts welcome. Thanks in advance.