Aright, so far so good. I decided to implement it first in python because it's a bit easier, and then convert to C (and anyway I eventually want an implementation in both languages, actually). I can parse a pile of BMPs just fine, but what's an ".mgf" file? Is there a spec for that somewhere? I can ...

Yup. My wording wasn't very clear... the GND/5V lines in the CAT5 are for powering the display. I saw your suggestion about doubling the power & ground lines, but it looks like I'm not going to have enough wires to do that and anyway I'm hoping I won't have to if the problems I'm seeing are in fact ...

I've got a related question... it looks like I need to run a serial connection through a CAT5 cable too, but I'm wondering which lines in the serial port are actually needed by the LCD because of course CAT5 only has 8 wires and RS232 uses 9. I'm already using two wires in the CAT5 for GND and +5V ...

Not easily, no. That's part of why I've been slow making progress on this... the display is installed in my car and it's not trivial to unmount. I could do it though, and I agree with you that that might be the best next step. It might help to narrow down where the problem is: in the long cable run ...

Why, is using a USB-to-serial converter a problem? I think the one I bought is a Bytecc http://store.yahoo.com/directron/usbgmus03.html .

Also, regarding the full threshold parameter... actually, I was trying to ask a question in there :). Let me try again: does it measure how _full_ the buffer is ...

I haven't had much luck with this yet. I'm wondering whether my USB serial adapter doesn't do flow control correctly or something :-/. Also, I'm using a long CAT5 as a USB cable... maybe it's too long (10 feet or so), it may be introducing transmission errors. Ugh. This is giving me a headache.

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Nope, I gave up, because noone from matrix orbital ever replied ("Hello hello hello... echo echo echo...." :-? ). And I don't have time/inclination to reverse-engineer the thing... if there were source code supplied or if the installer followed some more-normal paradigm then I might have, but no.

Sure. I implemented what you described, although my code looks slightly different from yours because I'm working in python. I thought I got it right, but I did see one error since then... another one of those stray outline rectangles. I'll look over my code again for bugs, and maybe I'll experiment ...

:roll: Cmon Miles did my post really sound like a newbie message asking "hey I just sent the zip file to the LCD display by uploading it using hyperterminal and zmodem and it didn't work, why not"? :P

Just kidding. Yeah I know there's a conversion required and I can write the code myself but you ...

Hey guys,

I'm writing an emulator too and am about to run into the same issue. I already wrote some code to read the "folder of BMPs" format so that the emulator would have the right default font, but the next step of course is to write a client program that can send a byte-stream font to a serial ...

Thanks Miles! I didn't know about tcsetattr... I bet that'll work a lot better than what I tried to do (process the 0xfe/0xff in my own code in a separate thread, etc). I'll try this out.

I'm in the process of programming my GLK24064-25, and so far it's going well. Thanks guys, great product! It has a glitch that I'm trying to solve though... sometimes when I display text on it, it seems to misunderstand the commands I'm sending. The most common case is that I'll try to set the text ...

Thanks for providing a linux distribution for lcdtester... it looks like a cool program, but the installer isn't quite as robust as it's obviously designed to be. Either that or I'm just missing something...

I ran it on my Debian system (which is fairly up-to-date, including a 1.4 JDK) and the ...

I'm in the middle of writing an mp3-player app that uses a 24064-25 for a UI. I'm using python, which for those of you who don't know, is IMHO the grooviest programming language ever. (I've tried a lot of them.) Is there anyone else out there using python with matrix orbital? Is there any interest ...

Given the lack of a response, I guess that means there isn't an emulator out there yet? (Miles/Henry/Johnny/anyone?) I'd like one too, because I put my 24064-25 in my car and it'd be really nice to not have to un-install it in order to hook it up to my workstation everytime I want to write some code ...