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William W. Ferrell (choadster@earthlink.net)
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Scott Scriven (scriven@cs.colostate.edu).
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Hello,
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I am the happy new owner of a matrix-orbital LK-204-25 V.
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I also made computer science studies (but currently I only program for fun).
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The reason why I wanted this LCD screen was to build a MAME/MPEG3/DVD player.
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Currently the IR receaver is missing, but I already started to work on my
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project by checking LCDPROC capability and trying to make it work the way I
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want.
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I don't know yet if my developpement will be a client of LCDPROC or if I will
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make a stand-alone program (more likely reussing some of your code).
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Currently, feature in LCDPROC don't cover yet my need yet.
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So, my best option is to support you or your team in building the perfect
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server in order for me to build only a client.
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So, I downloaded v0.4-pre5 and started to hack. ;-)
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I was a little bit confuse with your documentation, sometime talking about
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version 0.3.x or about comming feature, but reading the source code (and
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the sgml description that I only founded later) was the best.
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I made some "minor" change to a few source file (this is what I remember):
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* Cleaning the help screen from LCDd.
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* Adding a speed option to MtxOrb driver.
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* Updated MtxOrb help screen to indicate those change.
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* Added some error checking to parameter sended to MtxOrb driver.
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* Added fake support for big number into curses driver.
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* Some modification to the debug_driver in order to compile.
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* Added bignum widget in order to use that feature from the driver.
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* Added big cloc[K] (24H) to lcdproc to test the new widget. (ugly/blinking)
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* Added a General Purpose Output function to the MtxOrb driver.
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Here is some kind of todo-list one liner only:
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* Implement a debug/error to a syslog server rather than printf(stderr,...
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* General Purpose Output support.
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* Make "LCDproc Server" and "End Screen" (build-in screen) optionnal.
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* Make HeartBeat working with General Purpose Output (led blinking).
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* KeyPad support.
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* Make KeyPad local feedback using General Purpose Output (led blinking).
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* Make the server port number (listen) a param/config option.
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* Accept incoming 'telnet' (specific port) as a new i/o device (vt100/ansi).
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* MtxOrb driver across an outgoing 'telnet' session (access server).
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My major todo:
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* Well, I would like to (one way or another) interconnect IrMan(?) and
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LCDProc. I will use LCDProc for the ouput of the name of the song, ...
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and maybe for keyboard input. I will also use IrMan or some infrared
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library in order to receave remote controle input. Now, I would be nice
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to be able to connect to LCDProc and 'register' a new input and/or output
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device.
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What I am thinking about is to have LCDd be a server with local device
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to manage, but also have remote device that could attach themself to
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LCDd. I think, by reading your documentation, that you have somethink like
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that already in mind. This will allow dynamic addition of new driver without
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having to recompile LCDd...
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Change you should make yourself:
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* Update the network protocol description with heartbeat function.
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* Remove reference/out of date description related to 0.3.x
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I made many change to a lot of different file... (sorry)
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I don't have the tool/knowledge available to give you a patch with only my
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modification. So, I send you a taz.gz with everything after my change.
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I won't have much time to spend on LCDPROC for about two week (and the
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week-end in between). This give you time to check my change and incorporate
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anything you find interesting.
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