load graphicsbuffer from sd card

[espruino-discuss]

Posted at 2021-01-12 by JumJum

I would like to load a binary image from sd directly to a graphicsbuffer.
The only way, it worked for me is this:

var gr = Graphics.createArrayBuffer(64,32,4,{interleavex:true});  //this is a 64x32 LED matrix
fs = require("fs");
var x = E.toUint8Array(fs.readFile("myFile.bin")); //myFile.bin is binary file holding 1024 bytes
for(var i = 0; i < 1024; i++) gr.buffer[i] = x[i];

Using a temporary array and copy value by value in a loop looks strange to me.
And it takes a lot of CPU power to copy.
But all I tried to assign Uint8Array directly to graphics buffer, failed.
Failed in the way, that loaded image was not shown.

I'm pretty sure, there is a way to do better, but I don't find it.

[gfwilliams]

Posted at 2021-01-12 by @gfwilliams

I think it might be because g.buffer is a ArrayBuffer, not a Uint8Array.

What about:

fs = require("fs");
(new Uint8Array(gr.buffer)).set(fs.readFile("myFile.bin"));