C API - how does one plot a pixel?

[joyrider3774]

check this, you need to get the bitmapdata first (or the data of the screenbuffer)

C macros for working with Playdate bitmap data

Going to share this here as I've seen a few people ask in various threads, and honestly I've had to implement this a few times. The bitmap data of an image or the display's frame buffer is encoded as 1 pixel per bit, in 32 bit values. It can be a bit tricky to work with and basically puts every bitwise operator to work. Here are the ways you can get the data from an image: LCDBitmap* bitmap = ...; uint8_t* bitmap_data = NULL; int bitmap_rowbytes = 0; playdate->graphics->getBitmapData(bitmap, …