RE: Display types

[Ian B]

Just to confuse the matter I saw somewhere that someone had fonts on their
display device. The number of lines and characters per line depended on the
font selected. This does not apply to the device I am building but it does
present an interesting challenge.

The co-ordinate based idea is potentially tricky as well. My display could
understand the 1 to 128 and 1 to 64 of its native resolution. Understanding
another devices numbers would not be practical I guess. This would leave a
hole in the idea of a display being able to eavesdrop on the network
traffic.

If we start getting too deep into graphic displays there is then the
circles, boxes, lines etc. stuff that someone might want supporting.
Anything aimed at a PC could be very powerful too. Way over the
capabilities
of a poor little embedded device.

Just ideas - no judgements.

Ian

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Stuart Booth [mailto:<a
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>Subject: [xAP_developer] Display types
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>I was wondering this morning, given various display types can have
>different capabilities, would it be of any use if the display device,
>along with stating "Hey, I can display things!", provided its
>capabilities?
>
>For instance:
>
>Display.Features
>{
>Height=(number of lines of display)
> --- may be some special value to signify unlimited potential
>Width=(maximum number of [fixed width?] characters per line)
>Colour=(1 0)
> --- or true/false etc
>Coords=(1  0)
> --- (whether or not it can cope with coordinate based output)
>}
>
>Other items might include its ability to Queue, Prioritise, etc.
>
>This of course presumes that another application elsewhere on the xAP
>network knows how it wants its data to be displayed, as opposed to the
>display device doing it all.
>
>S
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