LCD plugin supporting more than 70 display types (now with full graphics support!!!) (2 Viewers)

[CHli]

Hi Joe,

I tried the new features of your plugin and I'm pretty impressed ! It's great and thanks a lot.

But I have a small problem

My Overlay pictures set in External Display are not displayed anymore or at the wrong size

Any Idea ? I've got a 160x80 pixels T6963c compatible display and I'm using the graphical fonts (for a bigger font)

Here is a sample of what I see : (using the text mode for font here)

When I try to display this :

with this configuration :

It used to work before this update

Thanks for your patience.

Christophe

 

[JoeDalton]

This is something I forgot to mention.

In the old version of the plugin, the background images stayed, until they were replaced by another one. This was some sort of convenient bug: because texts were diplayed in text mode, clearing the text didn't clear the graphics.

To add support for graphical texts, I needed to redraw the graphics on each update, so unless there is an image added to the Message no images will be displayed.

So, in short: you need to add the Image tag to evey Message tag in the config file.
I'll probably add support for having a static image soon

About the resizing problem, I don't have a clue what could be causing that.
Try adding the graphics to every message first, and see whether the problem is still there...

Joe

 

[CHli]

This is something I forgot to mention.

In the old version of the plugin, the background images stayed, until they were replaced by another one. This was some sort of convenient bug: because texts were diplayed in text mode, clearing the text didn't clear the graphics.

Ok this is a good point, thanks !

To add support for graphical texts, I needed to redraw the graphics on each update, so unless there is an image added to the Message no images will be displayed.

So, in short: you need to add the Image tag to evey Message tag in the config file.
I'll probably add support for having a static image soon

I will investigate a bit more the externaldisplay.xml

About the resizing problem, I don't have a clue what could be causing that.
Try adding the graphics to every message first, and see whether the problem is still there...

OK, but I don't think this will change anything Hope we can find a solution together, or I'll have a look at the source code for debugging :-P

Joe

Thanks for the informations !

 

[JoeDalton]

I did some testing, and everything seems to work ok here...

Are you sure your display is really 160x80 pixels? It looks closer to a 128x64 display to me, judging from your picture. But I could be wrong though.

If you want to debug things, look in the DisplayLines method of the DisplayHandler class. That is where all the graphic action is taking place...

Joe

 

[CHli]

I will have a look at that Thanks

 

[mogi_dk]

Hi everyone

Just wondering before I go out and buy some new fancy external display.

Can the external display be used for navigating in MP ?

For instance if I power up my MP and wish to hear some of my mysic or net radio I do not wish to turn on my TV for navigation. Is this possible ?

If this is the case how does it look on different displays (does anyone have any sample pics).

Best wishes,
Mads.

 

[tkortell]

Hi everyone

Just wondering before I go out and buy some new fancy external display.

Can the external display be used for navigating in MP ?

For instance if I power up my MP and wish to hear some of my mysic or net radio I do not wish to turn on my TV for navigation. Is this possible ?

If this is the case how does it look on different displays (does anyone have any sample pics).

Best wishes,
Mads.

Navigating is the whole point of useing this plugin, so yes this is posible. You can check out a good display here -> https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/showthread.php?t=10802

the display in action -> http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/2094/pict2199ou3.jpg

basicaly the menu item that is currently selected will be shown where the text of the media file currently playing while navigating. (what the display shows when it shows it is realy flexible and you can change it yourself according to your needs).

Regards / Tomas

 

[bahoiz]

Hi,
Thank you very much for this plugin.
I Have lcd with KS0108, it works very well.

 

[mogi_dk]

Hi everyone

Just wondering before I go out and buy some new fancy external display.

Can the external display be used for navigating in MP ?

For instance if I power up my MP and wish to hear some of my mysic or net radio I do not wish to turn on my TV for navigation. Is this possible ?

If this is the case how does it look on different displays (does anyone have any sample pics).

Best wishes,
Mads.

Navigating is the whole point of useing this plugin, so yes this is posible. You can check out a good display here -> https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/showthread.php?t=10802

the display in action -> http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/2094/pict2199ou3.jpg

basicaly the menu item that is currently selected will be shown where the text of the media file currently playing while navigating. (what the display shows when it shows it is realy flexible and you can change it yourself according to your needs).

Regards / Tomas

Hi Tomas

Thanks for your quick answer.
Just a few more questions...

When browsing your music collection how many artists/albums/tracks can you see at a time ? E.g. is the navigation similar to the one seen in MP ?

Do you still sell this display your are "advertising" for ?

If so does it come in different "flavours" (like different background colours) ?

Best wishes,
Mads.

 

[JoeDalton]

Can the external display be used for navigating in MP ?

For instance if I power up my MP and wish to hear some of my mysic or net radio I do not wish to turn on my TV for navigation. Is this possible ?

If this is the case how does it look on different displays (does anyone have any sample pics).

Mads, I already answered this question some time ago. You can read my answer here.

BTW, The current SVN version (will be available for the public tomorrow) even has a fully graphical DebugForm.

Joe