2011-02-22, 21:23
Montellese Wrote:The VFD has icons? I didn't know that and the API from Soundgraph only allows icon control for LCDsSorry, that was misunderstanding, there are no icons.
Montellese Wrote:If someone volunteers to count the number of pixels every character takes up I can do that. Is the VFD english only or is it able to handle special characters from other languages (like äöü in german or some chinese characters)? If it's english only it could be "pretty straight forward" to put together a list containing the width in pixel for every printable ASCII character and then do the counting.VFD is english only. When I put the letters you provided, it does not show the message containg them. In fact, it gets stuck at previous display. I tried Serbian Latin characters šđžčć as well as Serbian Cyrilic and it is the same. When I think of it, I think there was another minor glitch when my XBMC was in Serbian but cannot remember it. I'll test and let you know if I find it.
As far as counting pixels, I see no need for it on VFD (maybe it is needed for LCD?). There is always exactly 16 characters in one line. I tested with "i" and "w" and digits - always exactly 16 chars in one line.
Montellese Wrote:Yeah that sounds like the non-plus-ultra for the VFD but it will also be a lot of work. I'll put your ideas on my TODO/ideas list.Thanks.
edit: When I change XBMC interface to Serbian, with control mode enabled, while going through menus, any item containing non-English characters is just not displayed (display keeps the last item which has English-only characters). When I move the cursor to English characters menu item, VFD picks up and displays it.