displayio background color Moderators: adafruit_support_bill, adafruit

[kwalkerk]

Is there a straight forward way to change the background color of the display using displayio? I know I can load a bitmap into a tilegrid, group, etc. Would like to avoid the overhead using a bitmap takes up.

I'm using a PyPortal, but cannot use that library for other reasons.

[tannewt]

There isn't a way to change the default. The most efficient way is using a shape for the background. (See the library here: https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Ci ... lay_Shapes ) It'll produce more pixels without multiple bytes per pixel.

[kwalkerk]

Thanks! That worked like a charm.