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Stuff planned for future releases... (in no particular order)
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Feel free to help out with any of this stuff! :)
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Please send a message to the mailing list if you have any question.
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Things for the short term:
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- Use centralized command message parsing engine (more secure)
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- more features for existing display drivers (e.g. adapt them to bignum library)
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- documentation (any help is appreciated)
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- lcd_lib: Make use of the options parameter to specify SEAMLESS_HBARS, the
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height of hbars, etc.
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- lcterm: Support keyboard input
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- MtxOrb: Recover the code for I2C connectivity to MtxOrb
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- shuttleVFD: Use output() method for these special "out-of-band" symbols.
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- glk: port icon, vBar and hBar to 0.5 API.
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Things for the longer term:
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lcdproc client
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allow more than one instance of a screen with different configuration
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sections (implementation should be possible similar to the one with
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the drivers in LCDd where File=... points to the original driver file)
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more options in the config file (clocks with offsets from localtime, ...)
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more options changeable in the lcdproc client menu
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rewrite machine_get_fs() in machine_Linux.c to use functions from mntent.h
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get rid of MTAB_FILE compile time definition (for Linux & SunOS)
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lcdexec client
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more flexbibility: do not just only execute commands, but
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maybe also display their result in a screen, get a command's
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parameters interactively using the builtin input menus,
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confirmation of commands, jumping between commands depending
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on the output of a command (wizards), ...
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Client driver
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An LCDproc client can connect, request the "client" driver, then get
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all screen information sent to it! This allows things such as logging
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in remotely and starting up a curses display of LCDproc. It also
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gives another method for writing drivers. In a sense, it could even
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let you write and link in new drivers without having to recompile and
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restart LCDproc...
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Another bonus is that LCDproc will come with a client which can, for
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example, start up a "client" driver to send "keypresses" from the
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command line. Or,
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lcdtool -key A
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would have the same result as pressing a key on the keypad.
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Scheduling modes
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Instead of the simplistic "round robin" circular screen-scheduling in
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the current release, later versions will offer several different
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algorithms for screen-ordering.
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One example: High-priority screens will be shown more often than
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low-priority screens, simply by showing up more often.
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STATUS: Currently high priority screens will only be shown _first_ after
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a resorting of the screenlist. The time that it's visible is unaltered.
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