1 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Melissa LeBlanc-Williams for Adafruit Industries
3 # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
7 ================================================================================
11 **Software and Dependencies:**
14 https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Blinka/releases
16 * Author(s): Melissa LeBlanc-Williams
20 from typing import Union
23 from busdisplay import BusDisplay
24 from busdisplay._displaybus import _DisplayBus
25 from epaperdisplay import EPaperDisplay
26 from ._bitmap import Bitmap
27 from ._colorspace import Colorspace
28 from ._colorconverter import ColorConverter
29 from ._group import Group
30 from ._ondiskbitmap import OnDiskBitmap
31 from ._palette import Palette
32 from ._tilegrid import TileGrid
33 from ._constants import CIRCUITPY_DISPLAY_LIMIT
35 # 8.x Backwards compatibility, remove at 10.x or
36 # when compatibility is removed from core displayio
38 FourWire = fourwire.FourWire
40 __version__ = "0.0.0+auto.0"
41 __repo__ = "https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Blinka_displayio.git"
49 """Main thread function to loop through all displays and update them"""
51 for display in displays:
52 display._background() # pylint: disable=protected-access
55 def release_displays() -> None:
56 """Releases any actively used displays so their busses and pins can be used again.
58 Use this once in your code.py if you initialize a display. Place it right before the
59 initialization so the display is active as long as possible.
61 for display in displays:
62 display._release() # pylint: disable=protected-access
65 for display_bus in display_buses:
70 def allocate_display(new_display: Union[BusDisplay, EPaperDisplay]) -> None:
71 """Add a display to the displays pool and return the new display"""
72 if len(displays) >= CIRCUITPY_DISPLAY_LIMIT:
73 raise RuntimeError("Too many displays")
74 displays.append(new_display)
77 def allocate_display_bus(new_display_bus: _DisplayBus) -> None:
78 """Add a display bus to the display_buses pool and return the new display bus"""
79 if len(display_buses) >= CIRCUITPY_DISPLAY_LIMIT:
81 "Too many display busses; forgot displayio.release_displays() ?"
83 display_buses.append(new_display_bus)
86 background_thread = threading.Thread(target=_background, daemon=True)
89 # Start the background thread
90 def _start_background():
91 if not background_thread.is_alive():
92 background_thread.start()
95 def _stop_background():
96 if background_thread.is_alive():
98 background_thread.join()