Display

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In Mini Micro, Display is the base class for all the display types, and the class of any display that is off (mode 0). In addition, display (all lowercase) is a function that returns one of the eight displays in Mini Micro's display system.

Architecture of the display system

DisplayLayout.png

Mini Micro supports eight simultaneous displays, numbered from 0 (frontmost) to 7 (in the back). Each display may be either off, or one of five more specific display types (solid color, text, pixels, tiles, or sprites). Any transparent or translucent areas of one display reveal the displays behind it. Behind all the display layers is solid black.

Display class

Property Purpose
Display.mode get or set the display mode

Subclasses

display function

The global display function returns a reference to the current display for the given layer number (0-7). Note that the display object in each layer changes when the mode is changed, so you will need to get a fresh reference (using this function) after changing the mode.

Arguments

Parameter Name Type Default Value Meaning
n number 0 display (layer) number to get

Example

This example sets display layer 2 to pixel mode, clears it, and then draws a big translucent purple ellipse.

display(2).mode = displayMode.pixel
g = display(2)
g.clear
g.fillEllipse 0, 0, 960, 640, "#8800FF88"

See also: displayMode