Animated Message Board Working

Author: makermelissa

Matrix_Portal_S3_Message_Board/code.py

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+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Melissa LeBlanc-Williams for Adafruit Industries
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+
+import time
+from adafruit_matrixportal.matrix import Matrix
+from messageboard import MessageBoard
+from messageboard.fontpool import FontPool
+from messageboard.message import Message
+
+matrix = Matrix(width=128, height=16, bit_depth=5)
+messageboard = MessageBoard(matrix)
+messageboard.set_background("images/background.bmp")
+fontpool = FontPool()
+fontpool.add_font("arial", "fonts/Arial-10.pcf")
+
+while True:
+    message = Message(fontpool.find_font("arial"), mask_color=0xFF00FF, opacity=0.8)
+    message.add_image("images/maskedstar.bmp")
+    message.add_text("Hello World!", color=0xFFFF00, x_offset=2, y_offset=2)
+    messageboard.animate(message, "Scroll", "in_from_right")
+    time.sleep(1)
+    messageboard.animate(message, "Scroll", "out_to_left")

Matrix_Portal_S3_Message_Board/demo.py

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+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Melissa LeBlanc-Williams for Adafruit Industries
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+
+import time
+from adafruit_matrixportal.matrix import Matrix
+from messageboard import MessageBoard
+from messageboard.fontpool import FontPool
+from messageboard.message import Message
+
+matrix = Matrix(width=128, height=16, bit_depth=5)
+messageboard = MessageBoard(matrix)
+messageboard.set_background("images/background.bmp")
+
+fontpool = FontPool()
+fontpool.add_font("arial", "fonts/Arial-10.pcf")
+fontpool.add_font("comic", "fonts/Comic-10.pcf")
+fontpool.add_font("dejavu", "fonts/DejaVuSans-10.pcf")
+
+message = Message(fontpool.find_font("terminal"), opacity=0.8)
+message.add_image("images/maskedstar.bmp")
+message.add_text("Hello World!", color=0xFFFF00, x_offset=2, y_offset=2)
+
+message1 = Message(fontpool.find_font("dejavu"))
+
+message2 = Message(fontpool.find_font("comic"), mask_color=0x00FF00)
+print("add blinka")
+message2.add_image("images/maskedblinka.bmp")
+print("add text")
+message2.add_text("CircuitPython", color=0xFFFF00, y_offset=-2)
+
+message3 = Message(fontpool.find_font("dejavu"))
+message3.add_text("circuitpython.com", color=0xFF0000)
+
+message4 = Message(fontpool.find_font("arial"))
+message4.add_text("Buy Electronics", color=0xFFFFFF)
+
+while True:
+    message1.clear()
+    message1.add_text("Scroll Text In", color=0xFF0000)
+
+    messageboard.animate(message1, "Scroll", "in_from_left")
+    time.sleep(1)
+    message1.clear()
+    message1.add_text("Change Messages")
+    messageboard.animate(message1, "Static", "show")
+    time.sleep(1)
+    message1.clear()
+    message1.add_text("And Scroll Out")
+
+    messageboard.animate(message1, "Static", "show")
+    messageboard.animate(message1, "Scroll", "out_to_right")
+    time.sleep(1)
+
+    message1.clear()
+    message1.add_text("Or more effects like looping   ", color=0xFFFF00)
+    messageboard.animate(
+        message1, "Split", "in_vertically"
+    )  # Split never completely joins
+    messageboard.animate(
+        message1, "Loop", "left"
+    )  # Text too high (probably from split)
+    messageboard.animate(
+        message1, "Static", "flash", count=3
+    )  # Flashes in weird positions
+
+    messageboard.animate(message1, "Split", "out_vertically")
+    time.sleep(1)
+
+    messageboard.animate(message2, "Static", "fade_in")
+    time.sleep(1)
+    messageboard.animate(message2, "Static", "fade_out")
+
+    messageboard.set_background(0x00FF00)
+    messageboard.animate(message3, "Scroll", "in_from_top")
+    time.sleep(1)
+    messageboard.animate(message3, "Scroll", "out_to_bottom")
+    messageboard.set_background("images/background.bmp")
+
+    messageboard.animate(message4, "Scroll", "in_from_right")
+    time.sleep(1)