Custom Fonts at RAM_G

[gurhalilalpha]

Using BT817, I can create and load custom fonts by using the flash. but is there a way to directly load the custom font data to RAM_G without using the flash?
The EAB creates fonts as raw file but I want to add them as .c arrays and load them directly to RAM_G. Is that possible?

[RudolphRiedel]

Yes, that is possible.
In EAB you could directly can set the address you want to place the font at.
All this does however is to write the address a .glyph file is supposed to be placed at in the .xfont file that is also generated.
Check for "struct xfont" in the programming guide -> start_of_graphic_data

You can safely ignore the address setting in EAB and the only limitation should be:
"ASTC bitmaps in main memory must be 16-byte aligned."

Oh yes, if you generate a flash image with EAB, the .xfont files that go along with the .glyph files are automatically adjusted to where the font ends up in the flash.

I highly recommend using EABs Asset Compressor to zip the .glyph file, put the resulting .zopfli or .zlib file thru EABs BIN2C and then use CMD_INFLATE to unpack the glyph data into RAM_G.
Then load the .xfont file somewhere and adjust the address.