public override void Run()
{
// Get a copy of the rainbow colors.
SenseHat.Display.Reset();
SenseHat.Display.CopyScreenToColors(_rainbowColors);
// Recreate the font from the serialized bytes.
SingleColorFont font = SingleColorFont.Deserialize(FontBytes);
// Get the characters to scroll.
_scrollText = "Initial Text";
SetScreenText(_scrollText);
// create the caracters
IEnumerable <SingleColorCharacter> characters = font.GetChars(_scrollText);
// Create the character renderer.
SingleColorCharacterRenderer characterRenderer = new SingleColorCharacterRenderer(GetCharacterColor);
// Create the text scroller.
var textScroller = new TextScroller <SingleColorCharacter>(
SenseHat.Display,
characterRenderer,
characters);
while (true)
{
// Change the scrolltext to DateTime now.
_scrollText = DateTime.Now.ToString("HH:mm:ss yyyy-MM-dd");
// set the Text of the GUI
SetScreenText(_scrollText);
// get characters from String
characters = font.GetChars(_scrollText);
// Update Textscroller with new characters
textScroller.setCharacters(characters);
// Step the scroller.
if (!textScroller.Step())
{
// Reset the scroller when reaching the end.
textScroller.Reset();
}
// Draw the background.
FillDisplay(textScroller.ScrollPixelOffset);
// Draw the scroll text.
textScroller.Render();
// Update the physical display.
SenseHat.Display.Update();
// Should the drawing mode change?
if (SenseHat.Joystick.Update() && (SenseHat.Joystick.EnterKey == KeyState.Pressing))
{
// The middle button is just pressed.
SwitchToNextScrollMode();
}
// Pause for a short while.
Sleep(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(50));
}
}