Re: [OT] Possible bulk buy on 128 by 64 graphic displays with touch screen

["Paul Robinson" <ukcueman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > If you did that, I'd certainly relieve you of a few :-)
> That' good news. Does the added hardware cost affect you here?
The extra hardware would be needed in some form anyway, so it probably
doesn't affect me
much. Would be nice to have an estimate of the cost though.

> >Would your API support graphics only, or text as well? Or put
another
> way, does the
> >display have built-in fonts that can be mixed with graphics?
> At the moment I support graphics as well as text and simple shapes
e.g.
Fine. It's only software...as long as we can make it work in a rudimentary
manner at
least, then we can build on that and make it better later.

> >Now, if only you had a mega 64 simulator and a simulator for the
display,
> and connected
> >the two of them, I could do the job before even seeing the
hardware :-)
> Sadly it is not available at a sensible cost. I have to spend the 1200
> quid and get all the hardware first. Then I have to design and build
the
> Mega64 interface board and finally program it. This will take till
after
> Xmas with work commitments.
I didn't really expect to get a simulator...that was more tongue in cheek,
but it would
have been nice :-)

After christmas is fine. I've been thinking I'd like to do this sort of
project for about
a year, so I can wait a bit more :-)

As for the money, if you can provide an estimate of the eventual price,
then maybe we can
get enough people to pay up front for the hardware so you don't end up
footing the bill.

>
> What PC programming language do you use?
In my time I've done loads of java, C, PHP (even Fortran, but don't tell
anyone) and a
fair bit of assembler (6809E at 0.9MHz...ahh the Dragon 32/64 :-), plus a
bit of SPARC).
Some C++. Current work has me doing java, C++ and php.

> I have been using VB6 for all my
> current applications. I can send you a copy of the current version so
you
> can get an idea of the complexity/oddities involved with this project
and
> handling the data prior to sending it to this new fangled device.
I have visual studio .net, and I can probably read VB well enough to
understand what
you've done. My VB writing has been extremely limited - only as far as
writing some xPLHal
scripts for writing caller ID & comfort info to a MySQL DB and OSD to
slimp3/tivo.
Anything I don't understand, I'm sure I can pick up easily enough.

I don't know what my language of choice would be for this project, although
it would be
nice to be platform independant and my only PC GUI writing experience has
been in java &
php. There may be little in the way of a GUI anyway, so that alone may not
affect language
choice. Would you have any preferences on language? Would it matter?

Paul




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