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Image
An image for the micro:bit screen.
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An Image is a matrix of pixels to show on the LED screen
Touch Develop editor: plot an image
To display an image using the Touch Develop editor:
- click
image,plot image, and thenedit - click the rectangles to create an image
- when you're done, click ok to return to your code
You should see code similar to this:
basic.plotImage(`
. . . . .
. # . # .
. . # . .
. # . # .
. . . . .
`)
Creating an image
To create an image that you can later modify, see the create image function.
Block editor: create and show images
To create images using the Block editor:
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Click the Images category on the left.
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Drag and drop the show image block into your code.
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Drag and drop the create image or create big image block onto the show image block so that they connect.
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Make an image on the create image block by clicking on the squares.
Global image variables
Images that you create in the Touch Develop editor are local variables. To promote a local image variable to a global variable, select the local image variable and click promote to data. The var keyword changes to the data symbol data->.
Image functions
- create image: create an image from a series of on/off LED states
- clear: turn off all the pixels in an image
- set pixel: set the state of a pixel in an image
- pixel: get the state of a pixel in an image
- plot-image: show a single-frame image on the LED screen
- show animation: show a series of image frames
- show image: show an image on the screen
- scroll image: scroll an image on the screen
- width: get the width of an image