simlcd

Mini USB lcd framebuffer device dashboard ui creation tool

Features

• Create custom dashboards using config file ( not yet implemented, as it exists it is the hardcoded design pictured here )
• Through the fbgfx library one should be able to rotate a screen clockwise 90 degrees, and support any type of framebuffer device.
• Modular design for support with various titles through simapi library

Dependencies

• freetype2
• argtable2
• libconfig
• slog (static)
• wine-linux-shm-adapter - for sims that need shared memory mapping like AC.
• simapi
• fbgfx

Building

This code depends on the shared memory data headers in the simapi repo. When pulling lastest if the submodule does not download run:

git submodule sync --recursive
git submodule update --init --recursive

Then to compile simply:

mkdir build; cd build
cmake ..
make

Run

FBDEV=/dev/fb1 FBROTATE=1 ./simlcd -f fontpath play

Currently this is hardcoded to find a font file in the directory you run simlcd from called "font.ttf". Copy it from the fbgfx directory after retrieving the submodules.

cp ./src/simlcd/fbgfx/font.ttf ./build

ToDo

• Fix font path logic and check for fonts before running to avoid segfaults on missing fonts
• much, much more