setColor(uint8_t foregroundColor)

setColor(uint8_t foregroundColor, uint8_t backGroundColor)

Description

Choose the color that will be used for the subsequent drawing calls, it comes in two flavours if you need to set also the background color in just one call. It’s important to highlight that the color is passed as index of the colour in the palette in use. Is possible to load a different palette with load565Palette() or loadRGBPalette()

Parameters

foregroundColor

The index of the color in the palette that will be used by all the drawing routines

backGroundColor

The index of the color in the palette that will be used for clear() the screen or as background for text print.

Example

#include "Pokitto.h"

constexpr int squareSize = 10;

void update() {
    using PD = Pokitto::Display;

    for (int color = 0; color < 16; color++) {
        PD::setColor(color); //Set color for fill the rectangle 
        PD::fillRectangle(color * squareSize, color * squareSize, squareSize+color, squareSize+color);
        PD::setColor(1); //Set color for draw rectangle border
        PD::drawRect(color * squareSize, color * squareSize, squareSize+color, squareSize+color);
    }
}

Project settings

#define PROJ_SCREENMODE MODE15