some suggestions about epdiy

[aceisace]

I agree. This project has some great potential. It would be awesome to add native support to display a BMP file e.g. by downloading it as a BMP file or simply downloading it's buffer.

[martinberlin]

Hi Valentin,
Small suggestion (Since I don't think makes sense to open an Issue for this)
demo Example
https://github.com/vroland/epdiy/blob/master/examples/demo/main/main.c#L23

Does not compile for EPD_WIDTH <1000 since it does not find the file:
#include "firasans_12pt.h"

The correct file name is firasans_12.h
As a side comment I have a demo about downloading a BMP over WiFi and displaying it using 8 grayscales:
https://github.com/martinberlin/cale-idf/blob/master/main/cale-grayscale.cpp

It may serve as an example of how to download a Bitmap (supports 1, 4 and 8 bits depth) and write it pixel by pixel to the EPD buffer. This could perfectly work with EPDiy you just have to update display initialization. In Cale-idf project I use also EPDiy but still the older version.

[DavidM42]

I think those are great suggestions too 👍 .
One more nice thing would be to add a return boolean if the wrapped text fits onto the area/display. This could be coupled with some kind of pagination feature, so any amount of long text can be displayed via pages

[vroland]

Those would be indeed nice to have. I'm planning on implementing a Arduino-Style layer on top of the C API that implements more convenience functions. This is where those would fit in.
I can't give a timeline for that though. In the meantime, if you want an example for jpeg decoding you can have a look at the mpd example.

[lixy123]

Thanks for the sample code of parsing and displaying jpg image. I'll take time to try it. However, it should be better if this code is in the API library. I don't know if there is an API for screen coordinate rotation.

[vroland]

Yes, that would make sense. I'll mark it as a possible enhancement.

[martinberlin]

Closing here since we already have another thread on suggestions #31
Please add any further suggestions there.