- From: wwf AT frontierdev.com (William W. Ferrell)
- Subject: [lcdproc] ANSWER: Where is the X Matrix Orbital emulator.
- Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 07:26:37 -0600
* Matt
(madmatt AT bits.bris.ac.uk)'s
mailer blew these chunks:
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David Glaude wrote:
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Thanks. No wonder my searches for Matrix, Orbital, Mtx, Orb, etc. threw up
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nothing...
Don't feel bad, I couldn't find it either :)
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| Could have been TCP connection with my low-level communication layer ;-)
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Blatant plug perhaps? :)
*snicker*
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| PS: It is an ugly hack, mostly because:
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| it use Zut!
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| make a lot of process piping to each other
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| generate a lot of traffic between lcdemu and Zut!
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I was going to do it nicely with GDK, Zut! does appear to be a bit of a
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hack.
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I still might play with it, I haven't done any GDK stuff yet, so it might
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be a nice little project. I was going to make it so you can at least
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emulate most of the Matrix Orbital displays, LCD/VFD, maybe even with
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keypads :) Could be handy for debugging stuff without breaking your real
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display...
This would be one helluva killer app :) Emulates a display and you can
slap buttons onto the "simulated" display wherever you want 'em.
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