""" WelcomeScreen: A simple library providing a customizable welcome screen fading over an LCD Copyright (C) 2024 Benjamin Burkhardt This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . """ import time class WelcomeScreen: def __init__(self, lcd): self.lcd = lcd self.columns = self.lcd.num_columns self.lines = self.lcd.num_lines def show(self, cycles=1): # loops says how often the Starting text goes through if cycles < 1: cycles = 1 padding = " " * self.columns # as much spaces as padding as one display line is long padding_hyphen = "-" * self.columns # as much hyphens as padding as one display line is long starting_str = "Starting..." started_str = "Started!".center(self.columns) # mechanism for centering on a 4*20 display y_offset = 0 if self.lines == 4: y_offset = 1 # also clear the top and bottom with ---- self.lcd.move_to(0,0) self.lcd.putstr(padding_hyphen) self.lcd.move_to(0,4) self.lcd.putstr(padding_hyphen) for i in range(cycles): line1 = padding + starting_str + padding line2 = "The Program!".center(self.columns) for i in range(self.columns + len(starting_str)): self.lcd.move_to(0,y_offset) self.lcd.putstr(line1[0:self.columns]) self.lcd.move_to(0,y_offset+1) self.lcd.putstr(line2[0:self.columns]) line1 = line1[1:] self.lcd.move_to(0,y_offset) self.lcd.putstr(started_str) # now fade down if self.lines == 4: current_display = padding_hyphen + started_str + "The Program!".center(self.columns) + padding_hyphen else: current_display = started_str + "The Program!".center(self.columns) time.sleep(1) self.lcd.move_to(0,y_offset) self.lcd.putstr(padding + started_str) time.sleep(0.1) self.lcd.clear() time.sleep(0.3)