AiGeneric Video V2.1 & V2.1cf Released

[Oldbitcollector (Jeff)]

This archive contains the official new release of AiGeneric Video Text V2.1.

This zip is divided into two files:

Version 2.1cf (which supports loading of Commodore fonts .64c files)
Version 2.1 (which supports the original AiGeneric font system; replace old font files.)

Both support the following commands:

.redefine - Redefine characters on the fly
.center - Center the line of text
.putchar - Exact placement of characters
.getchar - Exact retrieval of characters
.color - 16 text colors
& support of most tv_text commands

The AiGeneric_Video_DEMO in demonstrates all commands.

Thanks to the collaborative efforts of Doug, Hippy, and Baggers this is
truly a remarkable driver!

Ok, I'm sick of editing this one for a while, now go create some cool apps with this. :)

OBC

rename with zip extension

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Post Edited (Oldbitcollector) : 1/29/2008 4:07:55 AM GMT

[Ken Peterson]

Is this in the object exchange? I didn't see it.

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[Oldbitcollector (Jeff)]

Ken Peterson said...
Is this in the object exchange? I didn't see it.


Ken, I'm the one who put the package above together, but I was reluctant to post
it to the object exchange as I'm not the exclusive author of this project.
If the other contributors are agreeable, I'm happy to post it.

OBC

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[potatohead]

It's fine by me.

Yeah, post it OBC. Ideally Hippy will chime in on this one as well. Not sure where he stands on the MIT license.

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[Baggers]

Fine by me too OBC. :)

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[Oldbitcollector (Jeff)]

hippy has been MIA on the Propeller forums for a while..
Might be time to throw a lasso at him from the PICAXE forums. :)

OBC

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[trodoss]

@OBC,
If you wanted to, you could also include the font generator bundled with AIGeneric in the OBEX.··Might be useful to someone using AIGeneric.· I have the MIT license included in the code, so should be suitable for posting there.

[mcstar]

thanks for the font generator! I just tried it, and it works great.

[trodoss]

Great! Hopefully you will find it useful in future projects. I have used AIGeneric for several things, and having the ability to make 'custom' fonts became essential. Saves a lot of .redefine statements.

[Ken Peterson]

I'm interested in using AiGeneric for a project of mine, but I'm using a QVGA display and currently use a modified VGA object. Has anyone come up with a version of the AiGeneric driver to replace the VGA object?

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[Oldbitcollector (Jeff)]

I'm working on one, but it lacks proper screen clearing and the re-define ability.
If you want to play with it a bit, is is attached.

It is based on "vga_1280x1024_tile_driver_with_cursor"
At this point color change works, as do a few other "AiGeneric" type commands.

OBC

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[Ken Peterson]

Wow....1280 x 1024. A bit more than I need. I'm going for something along the lines of the original VGA object, as my display is only QVGA. Perhaps I'll have a go at porting the driver to work with that when I have some more time on my hands.

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[Oldbitcollector (Jeff)]

Looks like everyone who has contributed to this project has reported in.
http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?p=795585

I'll be posting this to OBEX sometime today with an MIT license.
@trodoss, I'll also add your Fontgenerator10 in the zip with the "AiGeneric2.1"

OBC

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[rjo_]

Oldbit

Wait!!!! Don't post it.

U need a char to string function:)

Rich

[rjo_]

Of course it might be right there in front of my face...

[trodoss]

@OBC,
Great! With it being available on the OBEX, anyone reluctant to use AIGeneric should now feel free to use it. Having a font editor included should make it that much more useful ;)

--trodoss

[Oldbitcollector (Jeff)]

rjo_ said...
Oldbit

Wait!!!! Don't post it.

U need a char to string function:)

Rich



Rich,

Do you mean like this one? :)




PUB str( txtPtr )

repeat strsize( txtPtr )
out( byte[ txtPtr++ ] )





OBC

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[rjo_]

ok... now you can release it:)

[HPG]

Here is a AiGeneric_Driver_TV.spin replacement that supports PAL (up to 30 lines). Don't forget to remove the line in the Open method of AiGeneric_Driver_002.spin that reads


mode &= ! TV_MODE_PAL ' Driver does not support PAL at present

[harzoli]

HI
I'd like to ask any help change the size of characters in PAL mode. I've suppsed that by modifiyng the numbers of columns and rows proportionaly I could chnage the size of characters. Such as reducing the nubers of columns & rows to the half the sizes of characters enlarge double. Is this imagine true or flase?
What way I colud modify the size of characters? Which parametres need to modify and what rules by?
Thanks a lot
Zoli