Big Characters

AllenConquest · Post by **AllenConquest** » April 20th, 2005, 1:54 pm

I know there is a plugin called BigNum to display big numbers. Is there anything similar that can display big characters. It would be nice to have a large welcome message when LCDSmartie starts up (something that spans 2 lines).

If not, how would you do this in a plugin ?

Allen

_X7JAY7X_ · Post by **_X7JAY7X_** » April 21st, 2005, 5:03 am

Nope, I tried working on this before, there is not enough custom characters to pull it off.

Post by **IFR** » April 21st, 2005, 5:47 am

you don't have to use custom chars do you ?

Post by **limbo** » April 21st, 2005, 4:42 pm

There is no other way to build plug-in for that!
_X7JAY7X_ is right!

Sorry but we have some limitations

_X7JAY7X_ · Post by **_X7JAY7X_** » April 23rd, 2005, 7:08 am

IFR, I even looked at using the lower case L and other characters to make big I's and things. This was done to save custom chars, but there still isnt enough.

Post by **IFR** » April 23rd, 2005, 9:20 pm

yeah i noticed that
I was thinking another method but i realized that it wont work either...

_X7JAY7X_ · Post by **_X7JAY7X_** » April 24th, 2005, 7:22 am

If you want big characters, your best bet is to get a big character display. I think they only come in 2x16 though.

Post by **IFR** » April 24th, 2005, 8:35 pm

oh I didn't know such thing do exist

_X7JAY7X_ · Post by **_X7JAY7X_** » April 25th, 2005, 3:22 am

Yeah, they are about twice (pixel wise) as big I think. I have one, but never powered it up. Mine doesnt have a backlight either.........that is probably why it is still sitting there.

base2 · Post by **base2** » October 4th, 2005, 2:36 pm

Just starting out with LCD Smartie, so sorry if this has already be covered.

The "MacroBlack" case (http://www.bit-tech.net/modding/2005/09 ... ack/1.html) mod at Bit-Tech, while using a VFD (instead of an LCD) uses clock character, as in:

Could this be replicated somehow in LCD Smartie? I'm looking at doing a similar clock function.

smack · Post by **smack** » October 4th, 2005, 3:34 pm

base2 wrote:Could this be replicated somehow in LCD Smartie? I'm looking at doing a similar clock function.

BigNum Plugin is what you need.

base2 · Post by **base2** » October 4th, 2005, 3:57 pm

smack wrote: BigNum Plugin is what you need.

Thanks

I originally thought BigNum affected all screens when loaded, not something you could specify on a specific screen. Obviously not, so thats a great solution.

Thanks

fishthecat · Post by **fishthecat** » March 27th, 2006, 1:40 pm

How about this example I found:

off this site http://www.btinternet.com/~markd833/LCD/samples.htm?

"These displays were created by uploading 8 custom characters to the display and then calling the appropriate symbols to generate the large writing."

Could this be extended for a 4 line big char plugin? Or is that already a 4 line plugin?

Fast351 · Post by **Fast351** » March 30th, 2006, 7:04 pm

On a related topic, I created a version of bignum that does 2x2 numbers instead of 1x2 numbers. The 1x2 was too small to see at my usual viewing distance but the 2x2 works good. If you're interested let me know, I'll get you a copy.

-Mike

Post by **limbo** » March 30th, 2006, 7:14 pm

It seems by the character look the big characters can be done!
using the custom characters of this example...
...but a quite big code is required to transform every letter to a big character (four lines)

I can't say maybe I'll give it a try this weekend

(maybe not)

_X7JAY7X_ · Post by **_X7JAY7X_** » March 31st, 2006, 1:52 am

Hmm........guess it can be done. Limbo is right, it would take alot of code for that.

J

nsa666666 · Post by **nsa666666** » April 9th, 2006, 2:14 pm

I've made such plugin but the link to it was deleted today.?

why

(Something wrong with the forum? something bad found in the plugin?

)

Link to Plugin:
http://web44.server-drome.com/progs/bigtext.zip

Big Characters

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