Trik-c feature request

[scorpia]

Tim,

i was wondering if it was possible to put a feature request in for the trik-c.

i was hoping to be able to send the trik-c a serial command and have it display the text that was sent. with a direction etc.

ie somthing like. "send,hello,scroll,right,left"

and it would scroll the word hello from the right to the left.

posiblities of expanding the above commands to allow scroll left right up down rotate etc.

maybe display the work at a location. maybe font sizes etc. are all possibilities. but i would start with the set text or maybe select a size maybe big or small , big being the hight of the screen and small allowing for 2 lines etc.

This would allow a simple string to be sent and it be displayed .

Peter

[TimW]

For the current design I'd put that stuff into the computer app (Ie I'd get LTC to interpret the command generate the frames required and send them to the TRIKS -C). Just like Vixen does when it creates text.....

That way you can use whatever libraries already exist for generating the font bitmaps and you get the most flexibility.

- If we extend the hardware concept to add additional memory and or different processors you could get it to work stand alone.. but right now I'd go with the computer generated option. Quick and easy...

It would need someone to work out how to creat the font bitmap from a windows font. I haven't figured it out yet... but Vixen is evidence that it is possible!!

In the interim... you could just build a .led sequence in vixen that would do exactly the same thing and send it using LTC ??? Its a couple of extra steps...and doesn't lend itself to real time I suppose..

Tim



Tim,

i was wondering if it was possible to put a feature request in for the trik-c.

i was hoping to be able to send the trik-c a serial command and have it display the text that was sent. with a direction etc.

ie somthing like. "send,hello,scroll,right,left"

and it would scroll the word hello from the right to the left.

posiblities of expanding the above commands to allow scroll left right up down rotate etc.

maybe display the work at a location. maybe font sizes etc. are all possibilities. but i would start with the set text or maybe select a size maybe big or small , big being the hight of the screen and small allowing for 2 lines etc.

This would allow a simple string to be sent and it be displayed .

Peter

[scorpia]

Tim,

the reason i put the request in is i want to be able to connect the trik-c to a smaller device that doesnt run the ltc program.

its only a request so its upto you of you want to do it. (maybe v2 etc.) but i have a perticular idea in mind which might be different to alot of other peoples idea's.

anyway all good either way, just something else to consider

as for the font issue we would need to generate some simple fonts. i was thinking a 6x8 font would give a 2x8 character display.
i will do a search to try and find a font generator or premade graphical font

check http://www.crystalfontz.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3619 for a font generator
Peter

[TimW]

Peter

I think there's enough eeprom on the chip to store around 128 characters at 16x8.

The problem is ram. We only have 128 bytes and 112 of them are taken up with refreshing the panel. Doesnt leave enough room to buffer the incoming stream of text while we draw it. The chip could probably draw it as fast as it is received... but you wouldn't be avle to make any sense of it at that speed!

Lets talk some more about the specifics of your plan.. might be something to think about in , say, January ? :)

Tim