Why this library should be preferable to Adafruit's one?

Bodmer / TFT_ILI9341

A fast Arduino IDE compatible graphics and fonts library including a driver for the ILI9341 based TFT displays.

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Why this library should be preferable to Adafruit's one? #2

Closed q2dg closed 8 years ago

q2dg commented 8 years ago

In other words...what are the changes you have made?

Thanks!

Bodmer commented 8 years ago

See the linked Instructable in the description and try the examples: http://www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-TFT-display-and-font-library/ In summary:

3 to 5 times faster for graphics drawing on AVR processors (clears screen in 174ms)
nice proportional fonts and formatting/justification functions
larger fonts are Run Length Encoded to save FLASH
fonts can be easily included/excluded at compile time

q2dg commented 8 years ago

Thanks for your answer. Have you thought about merging these changes into Adafruit's repository?

Bodmer commented 8 years ago

I think the changes are too drastic and restrictive as the code is heavily optimised for the AVR processors so almost every function has been modified for this purpose, and hence the choice to keep the library separate.

q2dg commented 8 years ago

Ok, understood! Thanks a lot!