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Re: OSD SCHEMA QUESTION
- Subject: Re: OSD SCHEMA QUESTION
- From: Frank Mc Alinden
- Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 09:12:00 +0000
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Hi
Ian</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial"
size="2"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">>I'm
screaming busy today again, but I'll try to get something
together</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial"
size="2"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">No Problem
...when you get a chance ;-))</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Just some
more food for thought... I was thinking if you use DELAY=00 or whatever
doesnt that mean that DELAY is compulsory ??Although it would be handy as
it indicates that there is more text messages to come...and then
make the last message have a value other than 00 to initialise the display
timer ????</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial"
size="2"> Also the character colour can be changed
and made to flash on and off..although im not sure how to do in on a single
character embedded in a message but i have done it with whole lines and it
might be handy to have a RED text message which flashes on + off to attract
user attension..........Could be used were the message was displayed
earlier and the xpl controller was expecting some user feedback eg push a
button and after several normal screen displays use the red flashing on
forever....or until feedback sensed..just a
thought.......</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial"
size="2">Frank</FONT> </DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV>----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV><B>From:</B> <A title="ian@xxxxxxx"
href="mailto:ian@xxxxxxx";>Ian
Lowe</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title="ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx"
href="mailto:ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx";>ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx</A>
</DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, May 22, 2003 12:03
AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [ukha_xpl] OSD SCHEMA
QUESTION</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">OSD is one
of the oldest Schemas, and one that perhaps needs a little
tweaking..</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial"
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">As I see
it, there are two approaches Frank: </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial"
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">You can
either add additional TEXT2= TEXT3= TEXT4= and so on to the bottom of the
OSD Message, which I would imagine will burn that ram pretty fast
(although, you could use an I2C Ram chip easily, if you go down the
picbasic route)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial"
size="2"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">The Other
would be to not clear the screen with each message, add a DELAY=0,
and use the ROW= and COLUMN= tags to display a series of messages
where you wanted on screen.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial"
size="2"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">That would
probably work best with a "clear" command of some kind, but the
OSD Schema doesn't have one at present.. lets have a think about this for a
bit.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial"
size="2"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">It's
pretty important that we get the Schema right at this point: just now we
have only a few OSD Devices (Tivo, Slimp3, VFD, and your STV) in the
future, there will be many more. It's kinda important to make sure the
schema works across more display devices.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial"
size="2"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">I'm
screaming busy today again, but I'll try to get something
together.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial"
size="2"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial"
size="2">Ian.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV><B>From:</B> <A
title="fmcalind@xxxxxxx" href="mailto:fmcalind@xxxxxxx";>Frank
Mc Alinden</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title="ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx"
href="mailto:ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx";>ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx</A>
</DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, May 21, 2003 1:03
PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [ukha_xpl] OSD SCHEMA
QUESTION</DIV>
<DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Hi Me
Again</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial"
size="2"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial"
size="2">
Just some
questions regarding sending several lines of text.....The Stv???
has 11 lines to send text messages and i think 27 characters per
line which is approx 297 characters which is a lot of
ram ....Is there a need for a Number of lines to be sent as part
of the initial message and then send as several xpl messages
????</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Hope this
makes sense what im trying to say</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Frank
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