#!/usr/bin/env python from ctypes import CDLL, POINTER, c_void_p, Structure, c_uint8, c_size_t, cast import numpy as np from matelight import sendframe class COLOR(Structure): _fields_ = ('r', c_uint8), ('g', c_uint8), ('b', c_uint8), ('a', c_uint8) class FRAMEBUFFER(Structure): _fields_ = ('data', POINTER(COLOR)), ('w', c_size_t), ('h', c_size_t) bdf = CDLL('./libbdf.so') bdf.read_bdf_file.restype = c_void_p bdf.framebuffer_render_text.restype = POINTER(FRAMEBUFFER) unifont = bdf.read_bdf_file('unifont.bdf') def render_text(text): assert unifont fb = bdf.framebuffer_render_text(str(text), unifont) fbd = fb.contents buf = np.ctypeslib.as_array(cast(fbd.data, POINTER(c_uint8)), shape=(fbd.h, fbd.w, 4)) # Set data pointer to NULL before freeing framebuffer struct to prevent free_framebuffer from also freeing the data # buffer that is now used by numpy fb.data = cast(c_void_p(), POINTER(COLOR)) bdf.free_framebuffer(fb) return buf if __name__ == '__main__': sendframe(render_text('test'));