C# project - Smartie wannabe

[[Kain]]

Greetings, all. I am pretty new to this whole LCD/VFD programming, and need some advice. I really like what Smartie LCD 5.2 has to offer and want to integrate with its open source code, but I don;t know Delphi or have a compiler for it.

I have a project in progress written in C# (.NET) and want to know if anybody already has some C# code to help save me time. I really wanted to be able to interface with Smartie and simply allow my application to push data through it, kind of like a plugin or mod.

I REALLY don't want to reinvent the wheel to do this. Ideas? Resources?

Thanks!

[clansley]

How about posting this in the LCD Smartie forums?

Site: http://lcdsmartie.sourceforge.net
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[ch424]

I have a project in progress written in C# (.NET) and want to know if anybody already has some C# code to help save me time. I really wanted to be able to interface with Smartie and simply allow my application to push data through it, kind of like a plugin or mod.

I REALLY don't want to reinvent the wheel to do this. Ideas? Resources?

Thanks!

I don't know much/anything about C#, but if you compile it as a dll, then you can call to it from within lcd smartie (like this: $dll(name.dll,2,param1,param2) Where the 2 is replaced with the number of the function within the dll (i.e. 2 would mean the second function)

ch424

[clansley]

I've written some notes on LCD Smartie's plugin support - you will find them in the instruction section of the smartie website. If you need further help then post in the smartie forums.

http://lcdsmartie.sourceforge.net

[clansley]

I have a project in progress written in C# (.NET) and want to know if anybody already has some C# code to help save me time. I really wanted to be able to interface with Smartie and simply allow my application to push data through it, kind of like a plugin or mod.

.Net plugins are supported in beta 3! There's a demo c# plugin available from here: http://lcdsmartie.sourceforge.net/plugins.html

I will give you an early build, if you want to do development before beta 3 is released.

Chris