Is it possible to display a GIF from an SD card onto the V5 Brain Screen in PROS, and if so, how would I do it?

yeah just write your own gif decoder and displayer

You do realize I have no clue how to do that, right?

Theres GIF documentation online. And yes, I do know that you have no idea how to do it. I too, dont really know how to do it, but it can be done.

GIF demo, just port it over to PROS [image] Animated GIF Demo (VEXcode) VEXcode Pro V5 Text Tech Support Hers’s another demo that can be built with VEXcode. It’s not very well developed and uses a couple of C API’s that we don’t usually expose that were added to vexos 1.…

I don’t think LVGL (or at least the version supported by PROS) supports GIFs. You could use LVGL animations to animate your logo, without needing to create a gif. It can animate things such as color, brightness, size, opacity, etc. You could also switch between a few separate images, that might b…

[image] theol0403: Last I tried, I had a bit of trouble loading images from the SD card, the working method is currently to load from an image embedded in the code. It can be done, but you need to use the old converter and ignore the LVGL tutorial code. [image] LVGL image not…

I tried running that code in VEXcode, and I get errors in gifdec.c. Did something change?

Also, how would I port it to PROS?

builds ok here. [info]: Project Path: /Users/james/Downloads/gifdemo [info]: Saving Project ... [info]: Project saved! unix build for platform vexv5 CXX src/main.cpp CC src/gifdec.c LINK build/gifdemo.elf text data bss dec hex filename 13716 2128 8403832 8419676 80795c buil…

Wait, did you build that from VEXcode? Or did you use the command prompt?

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jpearman September 13, 2019, 11:33pm 10

It can be done, but you need to use the old converter and ignore the LVGL tutorial code.