Lpc2000

Wow, i feel like i m being grilled for murder.


--- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, newmanrf@... wrote:
>
> 
> You have to tell us what you have to work with so that we can help you
> with the shortest possible path. Since you did not I'm going to
> interrogate you but eventually I'll get tired and abandon this
thread. So
> here goes:
> 
> 1) You said you already had code working. Is that the glcd code?  Does
> your working code use the header gdisp.h?  If you have gdisp.h then your
> working code uses glcd from somewhere other than 8052.com. Tell us
if your
> code has gdisp.h in it.


No! It does not have gdisp.h in it.



> 
> 2) If your using glcd code (the one with gdisp.h in it)  then it already
> has font files and they are available for you to use. I will wait to
> demonstrate how to use them based on your answer to question 1.


See question 1.

> 
> 3) If your NOT using glcd then the shortest path to success is the url
> which I previously gave you. Here it is again:
> http://www.8052.com/users/mkaras/GraphLCD.phtml
> This gLCD code does what you want to do: Write text characters to the
> display using a font which is already specified in the headers and he
> shows you how to use them. In this scenario there is no reason to
use your
> existing font files or explain how to get your compiler to point to them
> because the examples show you how.


Yes. I saw that. I will try doing that next.



> 
> Wait!  Are you telling me the code from MKaras from 8052.com is complex?
> Please say no. 


Okay. No. I dont find the code complex. Its a bit easier on the eyes.
I said the glcd.c with the gdisp.h in it was complex. You must have
misunderstood. Sorry about that.



If you want complex and no documentation then buy  gLCD
> from Ramtex and write me back. The code is at least 30 times the size,
> with lots of features like windowing, and harder to get started with.
> There are at least 60 files in the Ramtex distribution of gLCD.
> 
> Finally- Are you telling us that what you really want is a example
simpler
> than the gLCD code from mkaras off the 8052 site? 

I think its simple enough. I have zero experience in graphic displays.
I had no idea we had to use fonts. I even interpreted fonts as
something coming off the Windows operating system, a complete layman
view. Laugh at my intelligence but you know, I gotta start somewhere.

 In my opinion that
> would be what you started with, the example that displays a bitmap. Want
> to display simple characters crt style?  The answer, with this
display, is
> you have to use a font file and stuff it out rows at a time, 5 rows of 8
> bytes for each character and then add some for intercharacter
spacing. Its
> not as simple as writing a character to a serial port or calling printf
> but if you get the code working you can encapsulate all the non-trivial
> stuff behind printf or debug_printf and your life is easy until you
start
> using another graphic display. Work like this takes work and the
gLCD code
> off of 8052.com is the shortest path to plugging and playing.
> 
> Again, I hope this helps and if you have more questions just continue
> posting them.

Thanks a lot. That site really helped.

M.


> 
> Richard Newman
> Pittsburgh PA USA
>