ST7565 Splashscreen

[tjtyson]

I was curious if anyone can help me to understand how to create a splash screen for the ST7565 LCD screen?

[adafruit_support_bill]

What kind of a splash-screen are you looking for? The st7565LCD example program shows how to create and display a bitmap logo.

[tjtyson]

I see in the example program where your splashscreen code is and how it is called. I was curious how to take my own bitmap (128x64 b&w bmp) and turn it into the proper format to place where the adafruit splashscreen code is.

I saw one person mentioned using bmp2glcd to do this however I can not find any documentation on how to use this program. And I feel this knowledge would be good to know future hobbyists.

[adafruit_support_bill]

There is a "readme" file with the bmp2glcd source code. It's not much, but it's a start.

[tjtyson]

Yes, I saw this readme file but is there a way that you can show me an example call of the statement for bmp2glcd? The reason I ask is because I do not know which options to call, besides the obvious height and width.

Usage: bmp2glcd <image.bmp> <options>
-h <height> target image height in pixels
-w <width> target image width in pixels
-v verbose mode
-pgm create header with __attribute__ ((progmem)) for AVR
-pic30 create header whith __attribute__((space(auto_psv))) for PIC30
-glcdlib create header for use with Arduino glcd library

[adafruit]

we do not have that code, we tweaked out the splash screen by hand a year ago and dont remember how we did it, you'll have to experiment, sorry!

[Hobbytronics]

I too was having trouble finding a program that created the right code for a splashscreen, so i loaded up Visual Basic 2010 and created one.
It's pretty simple, with just two buttons, one to load the bmp file and display it and another to generate the code. The BMP file should be 128 x 64 and only 2 colours.
Download it from http://www.hobbytronics.co.uk/download/BMP-LCD.zip
Also a brief tutorial here http://www.hobbytronics.co.uk/bmp-lcd-converter