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Time for some news, isn't it? Wednesday, June 9th, 2004 Finally after half a year I've been home for a whole month, i.e. I had some time for this project again yesterday The outcome: I should have a fully working Noritake CU40026SCPB-T20A VFD module tonight. This is one from their T-Version Character series - a very nice one... After that it's time for some general bug fixes, doc improvements and enhancements... New release 0.6.4 alpha Sunday, November 2nd, 2003 Here it is: 0.6.4 The new release is available on Source Forge! New features: - Sleep timer - 44780 shift register interface with 2 wires - LCD re-init option - input options for shutdown, standby, hibernate & reboot - standby and hibernation options re-initialize plugin after wake up Modifications: - internal LCD driver handling greatly improved. Simplifies future driver development and contributions. - Equalizer removed from dynamic menu configuration (was never working and not intended to be public). Bugfixes: - memory leaks introduced with dynamic menus fixed - shutdown option now powers off computer - PJRC & Crystalfontz driver: correct newline handling I performed a small test with Crystalfontz, PJRC, Noritake and 44780 displays and all major functions seem to work fine. One bad news though: my Matrix Orbital 4x40 seems to be dead! Anyone got a spare one? Back home Sunday, August 24th, 2003 I'm finally back home but the next business trip is just around the corner... Depending when I have to leave again I'll release 0.6.4 next week. But only after I tested it with MO, Crystalfontz, PJRC and Noritake displays to make sure nothing is broken. After that it's getting time to retest all input devices and get MO keypads working... Forums & 0.6.4 Preview Thursday, August 7th, 2003 All forums on SourceForge are now officially open and active - please use them! Sneak preview of 0.6.4: New features: - Sleep timer - 44780 shift register interface with 2 wires - LCD re-init option - input options for shutdown, standby, hibernate & reboot - standby and hibernation options re-initialize plugin after wake up Modifications: - internal LCD driver handling greatly improved. Simplifies future driver development and contributions. - Equalizer removed from dynamic menu configuration (was never working and not intended to be public). Bugfixes: - memory leaks introduced with dynamic menus fixed - shutdown option now powers off computer All source code is in CVS @ SourceForge. Most probably 0.6.4 won't be released this month - my travel plans are still uncertain, maybe I have to travel to Russia mabye not... Furthermore I wan't to test all changes with some real LCDs first. Overview Tuesday, July 29th, 2003 Just a brief overview what's happening at the moment: I just arrived in Europe today where I'm going to stay the next 2 to 4 weeks - Don't know yet if I'm going to do some further development during that time, depends on several factors In the meantime I got two contributions: 1) New shift register interface for HD44780 LCDs from Andrew Kibler: This interface works with two controller modules with only two wires! 2) Sleep timer enhancement from Daniel Moos Both enhancements will soon be in CVS and be part of the next release. Release date: unknow - it's released when it's ready... New release 0.6.3 alpha Sunday, July 13th, 2003 The new release is available on Source Forge! New features: - Custom character map for each LCD. See gen_lcd.ini - Dynamic menus. Thanks Tilo & TiTi - configurable LCD msg text for shutdown, reboot, standby and hibernate. See gen_lcd.ini Modifications: - No error dialog if connection to WinLIRC server failed. Bugfixes: - [611676] Reversed Hibernate/Standy Menu Functions. Bug was closed but slipped in again... - [764503] song position (%6) for songs > 60 min - synchronizing keypad access: the parallel keypad needs to write data as well, very bad if the SA writes at the same time! - Input functions "Winamp: Play Audio-CD" and "Winamp: Current track as bookmark" are working now - [762793] Song position returns to 00:00 when pressing stop in Winamp. - [762793] Reselected old options in Display page when pressing Start/Stop button. - [762793] Adding a set twice or more without adding any field results in sets with same number - [732568] Wrong characters in browse menu (check boxes) - WinampKeyboard edit key function Development overview Friday, July 11th, 2003 Development has been a little slow recently due to different reasons. Fortunately it's not work this time but more and more interest in Linux After three(!) years we finally got broadband and a static IP which led to a server in my closet... Sneak preview of 0.6.3: New features: - Dynamic menus, i.e. fully configurable! Thanks Tilo & TiTi - configurable LCD msg text for shutdown, reboot, standby and hybernate Bugfixes: - [611676] Reversed Hibernate/Standy Menu Functions. Bug was closed but slipped in again... - [764503] song position (%6) for songs > 60 min - synchronizing keypad access: the parallel keypad needs to write data as well, very bad if the SA writes at the same time! - Input functions "Winamp: Play Audio-CD" and "Winamp: Current track as bookmark" are working now. - [762793] Song position returns to 00:00 when pressing stop in Winamp. - [762793] Reselected old options in Display page when pressing Start/Stop button. All source code is in CVS @ SourceForge. New release 0.6.2 alpha Sunday, June 8th, 2003 The new release is available on Source Forge! New features: - Advanced WinLIRC configuration: Thresholds for repeating keys. Finally WinLIRC is usable! (request 611654) - Checking if AlbumList plugin is installed, if not a msg is printed in the LCD menu - AlbumList: enqueue album - thanks Tilo Modifications: - All WinLIRC entries in gen_lcd.ini are now grouped in a section called [WinLIRC] If you don't want to loose your old settings: 1) Start & close Winamp to create the new [WinLIRC] section and its keys 2) Delete all keys in [WinLIRC] 3) Move all WinLIRC_### entries in the section [WinLIRC] and remove the trailing "WinLIRC_" - Faster sorting Bugfixes: - [641582] Problems With Winlirc and the Menus - [750620] Crash after cancel keyboard add dlg - [709832] Can't get track number if there's an ID3v2 -> track tag added, year tag fixed - [709848] If you delete a set, they all disappear - [619116] Custom Character Scrolling - "Play Artist" function improved, about 12 x faster - thanks Tilo WinLIRC update on the way Wednesday, June 4th, 2003 Thanks to Herby who sent me an IR receiver I could finally fix the WinLIRC issues! A new release will be available this week. New release 0.6.1 alpha Saturday, May 17th, 2003 Thanks to your contributions there's already a new release possible. It will be available within the next few hours on Source Forge! What's new in 0.6.1 alpha: - New input driver 'Winamp Keyboard'. Credits go to Tilo Arnold, thanx! Captures key inputs from Winamp's main window. This keyboard driver will now work with Girder (http://www.girder.nl) and most probably with other remote control tools as well! - Updated hd44780_howto.txt. Credits go to Ulrich Meyer-Ciolek, thanx! > The pinout of the 4094 shift-register and the connection to the LCD was wrong. The > attached version is tested and works perfect. 1 to 10 of 60 Next >>> Search For: Search in: News Headlines News Body And in: All Categories General lcdplugin Any Words All Words News system powered by: