The picoTK HOWTO

Thomas Gallenkamp, tgkamp@users.sourceforge.net

1. Introduction

2. The Framebuffer

• 2.1 Organization and size of the framebuffer

3. Display hardware

• 3.1 The VGA card as framebuffer
• 3.2 Non VGA hardware
• 3.3 The frame buffer emulation

4. Getting started with picoTK

• 4.1 Requirements
• 4.2 Installation
• 4.3 Running the picoTK demo
• 4.4 Customizing picoTK
• 4.5 Customizing the framebuffer emulator

5. Getting started with picoTK for RTEMS

• 5.1 Getting started with RTEMS
• 5.2 Compile the picoTK RTEMS library and the RTEMS demo

6. The picoTK C application interface (API)

• 6.1 Initializing picoTK and the graphical context
• 6.2 Setting Options
• 6.3 Coordinate system and color model
• 6.4 Drawing primitives
• 6.5 Scrollable terminal box
• 6.6 Text metrics functions

7. picoTK driver API

• 7.1 Drawing functions
• 7.2 Info functions

8. Document History

9. References