LCD software

[malc-c]

I've been searching for a bit of software which I'm sure was posted by someone on this site. I'm looking for a graphic representation of a 4 x 20 LCD display that will then display how the text in a string will appear. This will make taking screen captures easy and saves me taking pictures of each menu option and then importing that into a word document.

[ScaleRobotics]

Here is the thread I was thinking of. They have a couple different suggestions.

http://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=7674&highlight=lcd+graphic+manual

[malc-c]

Thanks for the link... I stumbled across that PIC simulator software, but couldn't manage to get it to run my code correctly and simulate the menus that are displayed. Might opt fro the MS fonts provided in the links

Thanks again

[WOZZY-2010]

malc-c

Alexander Avtanski (http://avtanski.net/projects/) has developed a very nice application called LCD Display Screenshot Generator, for displaying an LCD Screen Image. Alexander also developed the excellent N-Bit Math algorithms that Darrel Taylor wrapped for PicBasic. http://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/content.php?r=153-N-Bit_MATH.

LCD Display Screenshot Generator (http://avtanski.net/projects/lcd/) creates, displays and captures and LCD screen image in .jpg format.
It can be found at: http://avtanski.net/projects/lcd/index.html.

Here's a sample image from the application which can be run online, or run standalone.
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It allows varying the LCD Display Size, Image Size and the LCD Colors.
Thanks to Alexander for such excellent PIC tools.

Bob W.

[malc-c]

That's what I was looking for - nice find.

Now the only thing is that my LCD is white letters on a blue background.... an option he hasn't catered for... time to drop him an e-mail :)

Thanks again... looks better than the MS fonts on a plain blue background !

[flotulopex]

You may have a look here http://www.oshonsoft.com/pic.html.

You can use the trial version of the simulator and set colours in four different ways (backgrounds: light, dark, green and blue).

Unfortunately, I can't attach any files at the moment (?!) but have a look here, I have used the "dark" background: http://home.citycable.ch/flotulopex/FairTime/FairTime_e.htm#Display.

[malc-c]

Roger, thanks for the links. I've had a reply from the author of the LCD screen shot generator advising me how to process the images.

I had tried the simulator software, but found it was difficult to get the display to work with the hex code...

I've now managed to generate the images for my document - thanks for all the input guys

[wjsmarine]

Hi Malcolm,

Please post the author's comments on how to process the colours - otherwise I will need to bother him with the same request you made...

Thanks and regards,
Bill

[malc-c]

Bill, I'll have a look to see if I still have the mail....

[malc-c]

OK found it...


Hi Malcolm,

I receive request for a particular color scheme quite often and unfortunately there is no way to address them all - the color scheme box would have hundreds of options. Until I find the time to redesign the applet to support custom colors, what I can advise you is to get a black & white image and then to use any image editing package to change the color. It takes seconds. For example, if you use GIMP (it's free), you can load the image and get your colors by selecting Colors -> Colorize and drag the Hue slider to 220 or something. Here is the result:





http://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=4747&d=1282753535

[Ioannis]

First you have to Inverse the picture and then apply the colorize.

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On Photoshop fr example:

1. Control + I to inverse
2. Image->Hue/Saturation
2a. Click on Colorize
2b. Set Hue to 220
2c. Set Saturation to 100
2d. Click OK.

Now you have from Green a White dots on Blue background.

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Ioannis