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Author:  Henri [ Sat Feb 01, 2003 22:29 ]
Post subject:  Animations on Noritake 128x64 VFD

http://www.skippari.net/lcd/sekalaista/vfdani.zip

Here's a little prog to show animations on the Noritake VFD. I've no idea how the timings will work for others as I've only been playing with my display for couple hours but I'm interested to hear about your results.

It's a command line tool and you give it the name of the animation definition file as parameter. The zip has one called ani.txt included.

Here's example of the definition file:
Quote:
5
100
frames\1.bmp
frames\2.bmp
frames\3.bmp
frames\4.bmp
frames\5.bmp
frames\6.bmp
frames\7.bmp
frames\8.bmp
frames\9.bmp
frames\10.bmp

First row is how many times you want to repeat the animation, second is the pause between frames in milliseconds and rest is the animation frames. The frame bitmaps have to be 128x64 1bit to work.

The prog needs the WinIO driver to access parallel port but if you have administrator rights it will autoload the driver.

EDIT:
Optional brightness setting included.

Author:  Pflumingo [ Sat Feb 01, 2003 22:50 ]
Post subject:  The Animation prog

Well, I tried the animation prog... And it worked as listed... but when I tried to make a change in the configuration, (To the 5 or the 25) with a text editor (on ani.txt) it gave me the exception kinda errors...

Looks nice, just wondering if the configuration requires a different type of text editor... I was just using edit from the command line, Didn't try winVI or anything yet...

Author:  Pflumingo [ Sat Feb 01, 2003 22:54 ]
Post subject:  Ok.. Figured something out

Well, I decided to edit in Notepad instead, and it worked... Must be extra spaces or something screws it up, and were added by edit...

Works great now.

Author:  Henri [ Sat Feb 01, 2003 23:49 ]
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I updated the program with a check that tries to prevent this problem.

Author:  Henri [ Mon Feb 03, 2003 22:13 ]
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Version for FLECOM's wiring:
http://www.skippari.net/lcd/sekalaista/ ... flecom.zip

Author:  Henri [ Mon Feb 24, 2003 22:35 ]
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Robert sent me this animation today: http://www.skippari.net/lcd/sekalaista/THX_Movie.zip

Author:  samtech [ Mon Feb 24, 2003 23:16 ]
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Well , coool movie , can you make one of these players for the Normal LCD owners :D (i'm have a such imagination :D)

Samtech

Author:  Henri [ Tue Feb 25, 2003 0:10 ]
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samtech wrote:
Well , coool movie , can you make one of these players for the Normal LCD owners :D (i'm have a such imagination :D)

How about this KS0108 version ?
http://www.skippari.net/lcd/sekalaista/ ... mation.zip

Author:  samtech [ Tue Feb 25, 2003 4:16 ]
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Whata can i realy say about this ???
Well to be honest your are spoiling us with this :wink:

BEAUTIFUL !!!!!!

Simply great !!!

And the Blinkenlights player is also great !!!

Realy a Job weel done 8)

Keep up the Excelent Work.

Samtech

Author:  JustMe2B [ Sat Mar 15, 2003 9:38 ]
Post subject:  Ohhh.... I Like!!!

One quick question, can you give command line for brightness, I run mine around 40%~70% (Day/night) and I have smoked plexi in front for filter, so at 6% I don't see much.

Thank you sooo much for such a kewl little tool!!!

Author:  Henri [ Sun Mar 16, 2003 11:11 ]
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Brightness setting included now.

Author:  JustMe2B [ Mon Mar 17, 2003 2:03 ]
Post subject:  W00T W00T!!!

Thank you :D :D :D

Works super!

Author:  Henri [ Mon Mar 17, 2003 10:07 ]
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Good to hear that you like it :D

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