A user-friendly program that helps you create personalized fonts, symbols, and icons from scratch or by editing Windows fonts, and apply several customization effects (e.g. inversion, outlining)
With GLCD Tools you can convert windows bitmap files (bmp) to a byte array suitable for graphic LCD displays. Additionally you can create fontsets out of your system fonts for the displays. It outputs C Code which you can use in your µC project. Downloads: 24 This Week Last Update: 2014-07-02 See Project. Choose a Font Generation program that produces Fonts in the format used by your library. Or just say which library / format you are using. Someone will post an 8-pixel and a 10-pixel Arial Font for you. In fact, I would expect your library to provide at least one Font by default.
Mikroelektronika Glcd Bitmap Editor Download
MikroElektronika GLCD Font Creator is a lightweight Windows application built specifically for helping you create custom fonts, symbols, and icons.
The program offers you the possibility to create new fonts from scratch using the built-in editing tools or import data from Windows fonts and alter it to suit your preferences.
Intuitive layout
Although it comes bundled with many dedicated parameters, the tool boasts a clean feature lineup that is split into four main panels giving you quick access to the character editing area, list of characters for the currently edited font, built-in viewer, as well as the most used tools.
Editing operations and effects
You can design personalized fonts for Graphic LCD and LCD (liquid-crystal display) by importing Windows fonts, specifying the font name, and applying several optimization options which refer to removing common blank rows and columns. What’s more, you can undo or redo your actions, clear all pixels, and perform basic editing operations (copy, paste).
MikroElektronika GLCD Font Creator comes packed with several handy effects designed to help you customize your font layout for performing inversion operations, outlining characters, mirroring items, and shifting characters up or down. The effects can be applied in a batch mode, so this means that you are able to process all characters at the same time.
The characters or symbols can be exported to MBAS (mikroBasic font files), MPAS (mikroPascal font files), C (mikroC font files), or TXT file format. The editing area enables you to create a new font from scratch or edit the current one pretty easily, as you only need to click on the small squares for defining the character shape.
Bottom line
All in all, MikroElektronika GLCD Font Creator proves to be a reliable application that comprises a decent feature package for helping you create personalized fonts. The intuitive layout makes it an ideal tool for rookies and professionals alike.
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This tutorial describes how to use the mikroElektronika’s GLCD bitmap editor tool to convert a monochromatic bit map (BMP) image file into a data array so that it could be displayed on a graphics LCD using a microcontroller. The GLCD bitmap editor tool is embedded into mikroElektronika’s compilers. It can generate a code equivalent of a BMP image, which can be easily inserted into the microcontroller’s source program.
Here I am using a NT7107/8 based (compatible with Samsung KS0107/8) 128×64 graphics LCD display. I will show how to convert the Microchip Technology logo into a constant data array and display it on the LCD that is driven by a PIC microcontroller. I will be demonstrating this with mikroC Pro for PIC compiler. The circuit diagram below shows the GLCD connections to the PIC16F887 microcontroller. The circuit is self-explanatory and not described in further detail.
GLCD connections to PIC16F887
The picture below shows a 128×64 pixels Microchip Technology logo. It should be first converted into a monochromatic BMP image. In Windows, the MS Paint application can do that for you. First open the image with MS Paint and then save it choosing Monochrome Bitmap format.
Now open the GLCD bitmap editor application from the Tools menu of mikroC Pro for PIC compiler. Select the size and the controller of the GLCD display that you are using. I selected 128×64 (KS0108) from the available options. Next, click on Load BMP button and select the BMP file that you want to convert. It will then display the code for the display image inside the Generated Code section. Copy the code and either paste it into your main program or to another file that is to be included into the main program. You can also select the type of compiler you are using so that it could generate the code accordingly.
MikroElektronika's GLCD BMP editor
The generated code is nothing else than a constant character array that contains the information about what pixels of the 128×64 GLCD are to be illuminated to display the image. The code generated will look like this:
For an LCD of 128×64 size, the size of the array would be 1024 bytes (1024×8 = 8192 bits), which hold information bits of all 128×64 = 8192 display pixels. With mikroC, it is very easy to load the image data into a GLCD using the built-in GLCD library routines. The Glcd_Image(Microchip) command will display the Microchip Technology logo into the GLCD screen.
