Week 1 Work

2016-05-27

By Yash Agarwal (GSoC Student)

Tasks Done

• Normalised the glyph drawing code
• Made a renderGlyph Class for drawing the glyph inside a specified box size
• Made a glyphGridInstance Class for drawing a grid of glyph from a given list
• Glyph aspect ratio problem solved
• A general Character Map class added

Character Map Class

This class makes a character map of the specified font the following are the ways to use it

Multi Row Button Type Navigation

you can use it like this CharacterMap = characterMap(font, 15, 10, 'BUTTON') where 15 is the number of Columns and 10 is the number of Rows

Single Row Button Type Navigation

you can use it like this CharacterMap = characterMap(font, 15, 1, 'BUTTON') by just putting number of Rows to 1

Multi Row Scroll Type Navigation

you can use it like this CharacterMap = characterMap(font, 15, 10, 'SCROLL') where 15 is the number of Columns and the number of Rows is ignored and all the available vertical space is given to the widget