Re: XPL-LCD

["Frank Mc Alinden" <fmcalind@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mal

> Presumably the entire menu structure and text strings would not be
stored
on
> the PIC (just the current display)

My intension at this stage is to have the menu system stored in the pic and
a fixed Menu............

Im now thinking it  would be better to be able to re conf the menus
...........

> How about UP and DOWN

Yep ...good idea........

and SELECT and BACK
> (for changing menu or triggering an action) as physical buttons, with
> another two that are context sensitive and allow the use to change a
value
> (so you could dim/bright if a light was the current selection, for
example)

Can stil have four buttons to do ON/OFF/BRIGHTEN/DIM.......

Thinking also of having a little buzzer on board which will operate when an
OSD message is received which has an alert=y..........Then i can use it as
an alarm clock ;-).........

Thanks
Frank




----- Original Message -----
From: "Malcolm Lansell" <mlansell@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 9:24 PM
Subject: Re: [ukha_xpl] XPL-LCD


>
> Presumably the entire menu structure and text strings would not be
stored
on
> the PIC (just the current display), so maybe the best approach would
be to
> allow a user to define their menu structure in an xml file read in by
the
> xPL connector application.  That way a user can have whatever menu
structure
> they like.
>
> How about UP and DOWN (to scroll through menu items), and SELECT and
BACK
> (for changing menu or triggering an action) as physical buttons, with
> another two that are context sensitive and allow the use to change a
value
> (so you could dim/bright if a light was the current selection, for
example)
>
> Mal
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Frank Mc Alinden" <fmcalind@xxxxxxx>
> To: <ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 10:03 AM
> Subject: [ukha_xpl] XPL-LCD
>
>
> >
> > Hi Guys
> >            Im starting to do the schematics for my xPL-LCD  and i
have a
> > few i/o available since im using the 16F876........I was thinking
of
> > having
> > a few buttons to send xPL Trigger messages to control
stuff.....What i
was
> > thinking of doing is say have maybe 4 buttons to control stuff
and also
> > have
> > a Menu Button....The Menu button allows you to scroll thru
different
> > menus.....ie lighting control Menu 1....Exstreamer Control Menu
> > 2...etc........
> >
> > Of course each trigger would have to report a different id
depending on
> > which Menu your in at the time
> >
> > Menu 1....Lighting
> > ON /OFF /BRIGHTEN /DIM......
> >
> > Menu 2...Exstreamer
> > ON/OFF/VOL UP/VOL DOWN
> >
> > Pressing Button 1 when in Menu 1 would send the  following trig
message
> > device=button_1
> > type=button
> > current=on
> >
> > Pressing Button 1 when in Menu 2 would send the  following trig
message
> > device=button_5
> > type=button
> > current=on
> >
> > Pressing Button 1 when in Menu 3 would send the  following trig
message
> > device=button_9
> > type=button
> > current=on
> >
> > ETC.......Is this allowable...?????............
> >
> > Frank
> > www.armaghelectrical.com.au
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