* support display heights > 4 (treated like height = 4);
* determine number of user-defineable chars using get_free_chars();
* allow custom chars starting at a character position (offset) != 0
* update and extend documentation
(get rid of those pseudo options named 'Arguments' in the config file)
- replace printf / printf calls by debug / report calls in some drivers
- sort and extend LCDd.conf
1) added the USB-specific open() code (removed O_NDELAY)
2) added the speed 19200
3) fixed the contrast code
4) uncommented out the special character translation
The latter three were reported to list Dec 2002 by Jay Wardle
up with more than 80 characters (20x4) in their display, and thus
overwrite memory outside of the allocated 80 characterwframebuffer.
For example, using a 20x6 screen would do this.
All drivers now either ignore a missing framebuffer, or allocate it
themselves - the latter is prefered.
* Uses syslog instead of printf or fprintf (except during init)
* Replaced sprintf with snprintf throughout
* Removed all references to lcd.* and replaced with CFontz->*
Note: this compiles, that's all I can say - but the changes are not
major structural or logical changes.
serial port side. Also fixed problems with ioperm on the parallel port
side.
Added --waittime option to the server to specify how long the server
should leave a screen up before changing to the next screen.
as argument introducers. in 0.4-pre10, these were changed
from foo to -foo and this broke many clients. This change
should fix that and be backward/forward compatible.
+ Added a noop function to the protocol. This is useful for writing
shell script clients of LCDproc.
+ Changed the shared sock_send_string function to NOT send the
ending NUL ('\0') byte with the string. This was confusing
in Perl clients which saw NUL's as the first character of
each reply. WARNING: The LCDPROC client depended on this
behavior, your client may too. Use the newline instead.
See the code in clients/lcdproc/main.c (look for "switch(buf[i])")
to see one way to handle this. This should allow new clients
to connect to old servers and vice-versa.
+ Messed with include structure in .c files. It should no longer
be necessary to specify ../.. to get to shared code headers.
Also, since we are using automake, the global config.h can be
found with just #include "config.h" as it's location is included
in a -I to the compilers. As a result "make distcheck" now works.
process LCDd now compiles and runs properly on Solaris! Additionally, he
has provided a new driver for a 16x2 LCD made by an Australian company.
I've compiled and executed this new code on a Solaris 2.6 box, and while I
don't have the display the new driver uses, LCDd tries to use it anyway,
fails (since the device isn't installed), and continues running, so this
looks solid!
mmdolze