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rect

Description

Draws a rectangle to the TFT screen. rect() takes 4 arguments, the first two are the top left corner of the shape, the last two are the width and height of the shape.

Syntax

screen.rect(xStart, yStart, width, height);

Parameters

• xStart : int, the horizontal position where the line starts
• yStart : int, the vertical position where the line starts
• width : int, the width of the rectangle
• height : int, the height of the rectangle

Returns

none

Example

#include <SPI.h>
#include <TFT.h>            // Arduino TFT library #define cs   10
#define dc   9
#define rst  8 TFT screen = TFT(cs, dc, rst) ; void setup ( ) {
  // initialize the screen
  screen.begin ( ) ;   // make the background black
  screen.background ( 0 , 0 , 0 ) ;   // set the stroke color to white
  screen.stroke ( 255 , 255 , 255 ) ;   // set the fill color to grey
  screen.fill ( 127 , 127 , 127 ) ;   // draw a rectangle in the center of screen
  screen.rect (screen.width ( ) / 2 - 5 , screen.height ( ) / 2 - 5 , 10 , 10 ) ;
} void loop ( ) { }

See also

• TFT
• circle()
• line()
• point()

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