Open for feature requests for the next LCDSmartie version!

usling · Post by **usling** » May 27th, 2009, 10:18 pm

but if you use usb-converter it works... i have a paralell vfd converted to usb by one of those FTDI chips, and the shutdown message works

Post by **limbo** » May 29th, 2009, 7:53 pm

usling wrote:but if you use usb-converter it works... i have a paralell vfd converted to usb by one of those FTDI chips, and the shutdown message works

Yes FTDI supports the shutdown message as well. But to next version I thinks some new features must be added there.(like center text, clearing all lines before send the shut down message because sometimes the message is mixed with characters from the last screen displayed!)

Post by **caesar** » May 29th, 2009, 9:21 pm

All suggestions are noted, I just hope to find some time to code a little bit.

spauka · Post by **spauka** » July 1st, 2009, 8:35 am

Hey,
Let me thank you for your great work. I do robotics work, and i only recently discovered this software to connect my LCD screens to my PC so really great software.
Anyway, just a suggestion, I do .NET development, and I'm just wondering if it is possible to add an event driven interface to LCDSmartie. For example, i wrote an interface to Windows Media Player that displays current playing position, however, the time changes are a little off due to the refresh rate being set, so one second is slow, the other fast etc. Possibly a function that can be called from the plugin dll (once loaded) that causes a screen refresh.
Other than that, great software.
Thanks

Post by **caesar** » July 2nd, 2009, 8:44 pm

You can tweak:
- dll check interval on Misc. tab and
- Refresh interval on Screens tab

spauka · Post by **spauka** » July 4th, 2009, 4:25 am

What i mean is, for example when listening to a song, to continue that example, it wont change for say 3 minutes, so its pointless to keep polling the plugin. There is however an event that is called when the song changes, and if it is possible to only update the information once that occurs, especially if there are a large number of plugins running simultaneously, which may be polled in such a way, then it may improve the efficiency a great deal.

Post by **caesar** » July 5th, 2009, 6:45 pm

That would mean to change the way smartie addresses plugins. Now it is polling and you can set the interval.

I don't feel safe changing that myself

Mesmer · Post by **Mesmer** » July 6th, 2009, 11:39 am

Sort of off-topic question, any reason why the releases page hasn't been updated since apr. 2007, i see that at least caesar worked on some new releases (not saying there aren't any others, just saying what i stumbled upon)

Anyways keep up the good work on this great little program.

Post by **caesar** » July 7th, 2009, 4:34 am

LCDSmarie is a stable and plugin enabled program. Also the main coders have been busy with their lifes and because there wasn't a pressing need to change Smartie, no releases followed.

I had some spare time I dedicated to Smartie (more is needed) and hopefully will find some more, at least to incorporate the new demands.

GizmoTheGreen · Post by **GizmoTheGreen** » October 28th, 2009, 10:38 pm

http://forums.lcdsmartie.org/viewtopic. ... 88&start=0

if you missed it, read please

Post by **caesar** » October 29th, 2009, 10:57 am

Seen it but I can't even try to do it now. I am missing time badly.

GizmoTheGreen · Post by **GizmoTheGreen** » October 29th, 2009, 5:15 pm

ok, if you dont have time, i can wait.

we all have our real lifes to take care of as well, I'm unemployed currently for example, sucks.

Nice to see ppl are stilla ctive here!
lcdsmartie feels kinda dead really

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