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+The Status Display on Raspberry Pi use the SDL C++ library
+
+ sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev libsdl2-image-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev
+
+To Compile
+
+ g++ -o display display.cpp -lSDL2 -lSDL2_image -lSDL2_ttf
diff --git a/statusDisplay/display.cpp b/statusDisplay/display.cpp
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+#include <iostream>
+#include <SDL2/SDL.h>
+#include <SDL2/SDL_image.h>
+#include <SDL2/SDL_ttf.h>
+#include <string>
+
+int main() {
+  SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO);
+
+  // Create a window
+  SDL_Window* window = SDL_CreateWindow("Image with Text Overlay",
+                                        SDL_WINDOWPOS_UNDEFINED,
+                                        SDL_WINDOWPOS_UNDEFINED,
+                                        640, 480, 0);
+
+  // Create a renderer
+  SDL_Renderer* renderer = SDL_CreateRenderer(window, -1, SDL_RENDERER_ACCELERATED);
+
+  // Load an image
+  SDL_Surface* imageSurface = IMG_Load("image.png");
+  SDL_Texture* texture = SDL_CreateTextureFromSurface(renderer, imageSurface);
+  SDL_FreeSurface(imageSurface);
+
+  // Font initialization for rendering text
+  TTF_Init();
+  TTF_Font* font = TTF_OpenFont("/usr/share/fonts/trutype/freefont/FreeMono.ttf", 24);
+  SDL_Color textColor = { 255, 255, 255 }; // White color
+
+  SDL_Rect imageRect = { 0, 0, 640, 480 }; // Image position and size
+
+  SDL_Event event;
+  bool running = true;
+
+  while (running) {
+      while (SDL_PollEvent(&event)) {
+          if (event.type == SDL_QUIT) {
+              running = false;
+          }
+      }
+
+      // Clear the renderer
+      SDL_RenderClear(renderer);
+
+      // Render the image
+      SDL_RenderCopy(renderer, texture, NULL, &imageRect);
+
+      // Render text
+      std::string textToRender = "Dynamic Number: 123"; // Replace with your dynamic number
+      SDL_Surface* textSurface = TTF_RenderText_Solid(font, textToRender.c_str(), textColor);
+      SDL_Texture* textTexture = SDL_CreateTextureFromSurface(renderer, textSurface);
+
+      SDL_Rect textRect = { 50, 50, textSurface->w, textSurface->h }; // Position of text
+      SDL_RenderCopy(renderer, textTexture, NULL, &textRect);
+
+      SDL_FreeSurface(textSurface);
+      SDL_DestroyTexture(textTexture);
+
+      // Update the screen
+      SDL_RenderPresent(renderer);
+  }
+
+  // Clean up
+  SDL_DestroyTexture(texture);
+  SDL_DestroyRenderer(renderer);
+  SDL_DestroyWindow(window);
+  TTF_Quit();
+  SDL_Quit();
+
+  return 0;
+}
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