Using TCL to output to a Matrix Orbital LCD?

flakrat · Post by **flakrat** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 8:48 pm

Howdy,

I'm considering a project that would require me to use TCL scripts that would output information to the Matrix Orbital display.

I haven't decided on which display in particular, but it would have to be one of the serial connection ones.

Is this possible?

EDIT: btw the host operating system will be Linux.

Thanks in advance,
Mike

s0me0ne · Post by **s0me0ne** » Wed Dec 17, 2003 6:47 am

Yeah thats possible, I dont know if tcl can write directly to the serial port or not because I've never coded in it, but even if it doesnt you could have a little perl script to do the talking to the LCD and just call it from you TCL scripts passing the string either through a text file or just over the command line.

Yeah the serial displays are quite cool, thats what i've got anyway an LCD 2041. Only thing is im trying to use it for an mp3 player and for that the 40x2 character LCD would have been much better because most of my filenames are longer than 20 characters..

Hope that helps..