possibility to have an image background

[MightyPork]

a background picture from some external server - giving a room layout map or piping diagram URL should be definable dynamically by a controlmessage from the micro

The idea is to load an image behind the canvas as a background.

@cpsdqs do you think the renderer can be augmented to optionally don't draw default background and instead leave it transparent?

[cpsdqs]

technically you could even draw the background with canvas, yes

[cpsdqs]

I don't know why one would want this but it's possible now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[MightyPork]

the "why" is simple :P

• seen those? this is for the colours

ok, a more likely example:

[cpsdqs]

huh fair enough. Well, if you add it to the update string you can now just set termScreen.backgroundImage to the URL and everything should work fine (might need some CSS to fix scaling though)