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Displaying Images on V5

Animated GIF Demo (VEXcode)

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 1.0.5. I’ll also explain a couple of more advanced aspects of the setup in another post later, specifically how to allow VEXcode access to more dynamic memory than is available with the default project build scripts. output looks like this. [gifdemo] and uses this animated gif. [world] You can display more than one gif by creat…

Drawing Image on V5 Screen

Sorry I neglected to state I was using VexCode C++. I have looked at some things on the forum and came up with this code #include "vex.h" using namespace vex; // A global instance of vex::brain used for printing to the V5 brain screen vex::brain Brain; int main() { Brain.Screen.drawImageFromFile("cube.png",20,20); while(1) { // Allow other tasks to run this_thread::sleep_for(10); } } Unfortunately this will not draw the image.

Having troubles displaying gifs

Did you include “vex.h” and “gifclass.h” at the beginning of your program? See attached example in this topic: Animated GIF Demo (VEXcode) vex::Gif class is not a part of the default VEXcode API: VEX Help PNG and BMP images can be drawn with drawImageFromFile(): VEX Help See example here: Drawing Image on V5 Screen - #3 by trontech569

Display image on V5 using vex code - #6 by jpearman

A Guide to Changing Program Icons

A guide to icons on the V5 When you upload a program to the V5, you may notice that the icon for it corresponds with what program you used to code it in. But you’ve probably wondered at some point how to change the icon, right? Well here’s a guide on how to do so, wether you code in PROS or VexCode (but it still requires PROS either way). How it works But first, let’s get into how it works. VexOS looks for the icon you specify in the .ini file uploaded to the brain when uploading your program …