Custom Character Generator

[Art]

Excellent job, and thanx for sharing
I would never have bothered with custom characters before this.
Cheers, Art.

[Dave]

Darrel Taylor, Is there any chance you could make your character generator program available as an executable for me to put onto my PBP directory for further reference?

Dave Purola,
N8NTA

[Luciano]

LCD Character Generator: (Freeware)
http://www.parallax.com/dl/sw/lcdcc.zip
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Luciano

[Darrel Taylor]

Yikes!, I'm falling behind here. Not enough hours in a day.

Sean, Ralph and Art,

Thank you!

This was actually a side product of what I was working on, (more on that later). But it worked so good I thought I'd Post it. Could use a little more speed. And then there's that "FireFox problem'....uuugh. Fortunately, the main project is working much better,(more on that later). Is there an echo in here?? Hmmm.

Luciano:
Thanks for that, well not really. I've actually used that program before(back when I was using "Stamps", yuck!). So i guess you could say that the thought wasn't very original. However, the LCDCC.EXE program isn't very PicBasic Pro freindly.   While it does a good job of creating data for the characters, it doesn't address how to send them to the LCD, or what address you need to send them to.

I think this version overcomes those deficiencies and allows you to just Cut&Paste the results into your "PicBasic Pro" program.

But then, it doesn't answer Dave's request.  Kinda screws up my defensive posturing,...(more on that later)...there it is again, who said that?

Dave:
It's written in Javascript for browsers. I don't know if it can be turned into a stand alone program or not. ???

However, if you don't want to enter the forum to use it. You can bookmark this page, and use it anytime you like.
http://www.DarrelTaylor.com/files/CustChar.htm

Or, go to that page and use (File | Save As) and you'll have an OFF-line copy.

[Luciano]

Hi Darrel,

My computers were manufactured in the last century.

Below you can find the performances of your javascript on my machines.

During the test I have generated only one character. (Letter T).
I have no Antivirus installed on the computers.
Only IE6.0 is open. In the W2K task manager, IEXPLORE.EXE gets
98% of the CPU when the javascript is executed and goes back
to 0% when the javascript is over.

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Generated character: (Letter T)
LCDOUT 254,64,31,4,4,4,4,4,4,0 ' Cust Char #0

Results:

(I click the eleven boxes with the mouse and wait).

Pentium 166 MHz, 128MB, W98SE, IE6.0:
105 seconds

Pentium II 300 MHz, 256MB, W2K SP4, IE6.0:
27 seconds

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I like and appreciate your support in this forum.
This is only a problem report.

Best regards,


Luciano

[Darrel Taylor]

That's good to know, thanks Luciano.

I knew it was a little sluggish, but it didn't seem that bad on my 3ghz, Hyperthreading laptop.

I'll have to see what I can do.

[Acetronics2]

I'll have to see what I can do.

Hi, Darrel

The best you could do is a Downloadable version ...

Alain