How to use fonts stored in Eeprom

Yokablasta · Joined: 13 Dec 2017 Posts: 19

I\\\'ve got a fairly large program written on an Atmega128a. It\\\'s got a lot of sliders and a small OLED display. I\\\'ve been having issues where the program won\\\'t compile due to SRAM space. So far I\\\'ve eliminated unused characters from my large fonts, which helped quite a bit, and I got rid of the .bgf splash screen. I\\\'m still having the issue though, as the program nears completion. It seems like the thing that really caused issues is the strings that use the 12x16 font. Would it make sense to place the fonts and strings in eeprom? How does a font file work when it\\\'s in eeprom? I\\\'ve been trying to find a concrete example of code where someone has done that. Is there anything else I should be doing to cut down on SRAM use? Any tips are appreciated. Thanks.
-R

(BASCOM-AVR version : 2.0.8.1 )

albertsm · Joined: 09 Apr 2004 Posts: 5003 Location: Holland

i think you confuse sram and flashrom.
you will not get more sram space when stripping fonts.

which lcd driver do you use?
was it included with bascom or was it a third party driver?

the eeprom is small, you will not gain much by storing fonts there. but depending on the data you need to display, there are tricks to shrink down fonts.
especial a big font uses a lot of space.

another simple solution is to move to a mega256

Yokablasta · Joined: 13 Dec 2017 Posts: 19

I am using an I2C 64 x 128 OLED display with the \"glcdSSD1306-I2C.lib\". Basically, I have a bunch of data tables after the end of my code that I use to look up the text string associated with each parameter. Once the string has been fetched, I use Lcdat 1,1, mystring to display the text.
I keep having issues programming the chip when I use the large fonts. I noticed that everything works fine when I use a 6x8 font, but then when I go woth a larger 12x16, I get the message that I have run out of SRAM. If I remove any of the other data tables used in my code, I can then get it to run, which made me think that this was a memory issue. I am probably overlooking something here that may be obvious to somebody else.

albertsm · Joined: 09 Apr 2004 Posts: 5003 Location: Holland

you can best send your question and project to support (zipped).
I like to see this error message. I do not think it is about SRAM.
Make sure to send the project that gives a problem with the big font.
Also include the font files, in fact, all files needed to compile the project.