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Henri
PostPosted: Sat Feb 01, 2003 22:29 
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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:
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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.


Last edited by Henri on Sun Mar 16, 2003 11:10, edited 1 time in total.

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Pflumingo
 Post subject: The Animation prog
PostPosted: Sat Feb 01, 2003 22:50 
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...
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Pflumingo
PostPosted: Sat Feb 01, 2003 22:54 
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.
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Henri
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 01, 2003 23:49 
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I updated the program with a check that tries to prevent this problem.
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Henri
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 03, 2003 22:13 
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Version for FLECOM's wiring:
http://www.skippari.net/lcd/sekalaista/ ... flecom.zip
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Henri
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Robert sent me this animation today: http://www.skippari.net/lcd/sekalaista/THX_Movie.zip
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samtech
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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)

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Henri
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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
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samtech
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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.

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JustMe2B
 Post subject: Ohhh.... I Like!!!
PostPosted: Sat Mar 15, 2003 9:38 
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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!!!
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Henri
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Brightness setting included now.
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JustMe2B
 Post subject: W00T W00T!!!
PostPosted: Mon Mar 17, 2003 2:03 
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Thank you :D :D :D

Works super!
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Henri
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Good to hear that you like it :D
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