Oh wise and knowledgeable smartie developers - Noritake VFD

[brendan_duncan]

Never before have I so clearly seen how little I know...

I have a Noritake VFD 800 (via parallel), and it seems likely that it is easily made to work with smartie (top-notch program, btw).

I have the source code for the winamp plugin for this vfd (https://sourceforge.net/project/showfil ... up_id=9036). I have

pinouts (https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_ ... up_id=9036) and (http://www.markuszehnder.ch/projects/lc ... 800vfd.gif),

example code (http://forum.lcdinfo.com/viewtopic.php? ... 5d38358e87),

numerous info-sheets of every variety... Basically I have everything I could possibly need to make this work -except the slightest sliver of the knowledge or skill required to make this happen. The winamp plugin was developed with Visual Studio and MFC as development environment.

Is this workable? I've looked at the skeleton dll threads, it seems like I can just borrow from the winamp plugin -right? Would one of you gurus be so kind as to offer a helping hand to a struggling newbie? I could use some pointers... Or perhaps someone could build this out? Or if this is actually a somewhat involved then a nudge in the right direction would be great.

[brendan_duncan]

The is the config I use for winamp:

[Noritake]
Port=888
Width=160
Height=32
CellWidth=6
CellHeight=8
DelayShort=40
DelayMed=100
DelayLong=1600
DelayInit=2
DelayType=0
Brightness=0

[HD44780]
Port=888
Columns=20
Rows=4
BacklightCircuit=0
CellWidth=5
CellHeight=8
Interface=16
SplitScreens=140
DelayShort=40
DelayMed=100
DelayLong=1600
DelayInit=4100
DelayBus=17
DelayMultiplier=1
DelayType=0

[grantb3]

I think that it's a graphic LCD (sorry if that's obvious to you). So it requires a DLL that supports the chipset. Sorry, I only know about the character ones.

[brendan_duncan]

The basic infosheet is available at

http://noritake2.download.reliablenetwo ... 32-800.pdf


this one is similar, but I believe not 100% the same.

http://www.noritake-itron.com/Specs/GU8 ... 00B-02.pdf

Anyone have an idea of how hard dll dev will be?