pyprocgame includes a number of tools to make certain tasks easier. Your installation should have included a procgame command line tool. Once procgame is in your path (the steps for this will depend on your specific platform; on some platforms it will already be in your path), you can invoke it on the command line:
$ procgame
Usage: procgame <command> <arg0> <arg1> ... <argN>
Commands:
config Configuration tool.
dmdconvert Converts image files to .dmd files.
dmdfontwidths Interactively assign font width values.
dmdplayer Play a .dmd file.
dmdsplashrom Create a P-ROC ROM with a custom power-up image.
lampshow Play a lamp show.
Without any arguments, procgame shows the available commands within the tool. Run procgame again with the command specified in order to see information about that command:
$ procgame dmdconvert
Usage: procgame dmdconvert [options] <image1.png> [... <imageN.png>] <output.dmd>
If only one image name is used it may include %d format specifiers to
...
...
The following documents the specifics of some of the procgame tools.
The config tool assists in managing the pyprocgame configuration file, located at ~/.pyprocgame/config.yaml. Run it without any arguments to see the location of your config.yaml file:
$ procgame config
Your configuration file is located at:
/home/me/.pyprocgame/config.yaml
You can assign string values in your configuration using the --set option:
$ procgame config --key=pinproc_class --set=procgame.fakepinproc.FakePinPROC
Or clear them with --clear:
$ procgame config --key=pinproc_class --clear
You can also use config to manage your font_path:
$ procgame config --key=font_path --add="/home/me/dmd_fonts"
Run procgame config --help to view other options.
Use dmdconvert to convert one or more image files into a 16-color .dmd animation file, which can later be loaded by procgame.dmd.Animation.load(). Its usage is as follows:
procgame dmdconvert <image1> [... <imageN>] <output.dmd>
If only one image name is supplied, the %d format specifier may be used to iterate over image files matching a pattern:
procgame dmdconvert Animation%03d.png Animation.dmd
Additionally, UNIX shells with wildcard expansion support allow the following:
procgame dmdconvert Animation*.png Animation.dmd
dmdconvert requires the Python Imaging Library (PIL). It does not require that the P-ROC hardware be installed.
dmdfontwidths provides an interactive, text-based interface for specifying the font widths of individual characters in a .dmd font file. Its usage is as follows:
procgame dmdfontwidths <font.dmd> <text>
The provided text will be displayed using the P-ROC hardware in the given font file, which may be a single-frame .dmd; if it is a second frame will be added to contain the font widths (this is a feature of procgame.dmd.Font.load()).
To assign character widths, enter the character(s) you wish to change and press return. Then type the width to assign to all of the specified characters at once. The DMD will be updated with the new font width values. Repeat this process until the font widths of the given text are to your liking. Hit return with a blank line to exit.
Tips:
dmdplayer displays a .dmd file on the DMD. Its usage is as follows:
procgame dmdplayer <file.dmd>
dmdsplashrom requests a new P-ROC ROM image (.p-roc file) with a custom power-up image. Usage:
procgame dmdsplashrom <key> <base_fpga_version> <file.dmd> <output.p-roc>
All images made with this utility will have a P-ROC watermark applied, showing ‘P-ROC’ and the image version number.