Graphics on the VBOX Touch

Applies to:

All variants

All VBOX Touch products contain a colour touchscreen that can be programmed to display different graphics. The screen is 800 by 480 pixels and runs in the following way:

This is created mainly using the gui library that has been created by Racelogic. This is imported easily using:

import gui

This page will explain how you can use the functionality in this module to create your apps.

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• Interactive UI
  • Variable recap
  • redraw
  • Creating live updating text
  • Sublists
• Shapes
  • Drawing a circle
  • Drawing a line
  • Drawing a rectangle
  • Drawing any shape
• Events
  • Press
  • Redraw
  • Swipe
  • Vsync
• Creating widgets
  • Text
  • Button
  • Clock
  • Dial
  • Gauge
  • Hot Text
  • Keys
  • Number
  • Progress bar
  • Scrollbar
  • Slider
  • Toggle Switch
  • Options
• Managing Tags
  • Assigning Tags
• Adding colour
  • Colouring primitives
  • Filling a shape
  • Colouring widgets
  • Brightness
• Other functions
  • RGB
  • disable callbacks
  • toggle press
  • get the display list
  • get_max_dl_ram
  • pause callbacks
  • redraw
  • show
  • swipe_info

Further examples

The following lists scripts that contain detailed usage on creating a gui.

• Shapes.py - Has code that uses every part of shape creation: circles, any shape and also filling them with colour and gradient.

• Most apps - Have examples of creating text, buttons, sliders and storing the values they create. Test out a couple if needed.