Looking for Windows serial terminal that allows graphics
Bean
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Does anyone know of any free windows terminal software (like Hyperterm) that allows you to do graphics ?
I mean like set pixels and/or draw lines (not ascii graphics).
I imagine it would have some kind of sequence like ESC,254,x,y,color to plot a point.
Bean
I mean like set pixels and/or draw lines (not ascii graphics).
I imagine it would have some kind of sequence like ESC,254,x,y,color to plot a point.
Bean
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As I recall, I bought the cheapest version to play with. They had Bronze, Silver, and Gold versions and I needed to upgrade to get a serial port. I did not like it enough to want to upgrade.
You might find a better Basic with the serial port to do what you want. Terminal software is serial based ASCII or maybe even EBDIC to text. Linux offers PUTTY which is great and even available in a Windows port. But strings of data to pixels and colors is rather exotic.
As I recall some of the DEC Terminals supported graphics modes so if you can find a feww Windows based terminal emulator that fully emulates the DEC Terminals then perhaps you can use that. I found a few links that may help. If nothing else they may work for another Propeller Project!
http://www.cityu.edu.hk/csc/netcomp/net2/pc240.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReGIS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel
http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Network_and_Internet/Terminals_and_Telnet_Clients/KoalaTerm.html
Robert
You can download versions of PuTTY for Windows as well. I've never tried graphics with it but I'm pretty sure you can at least change font colors in some of the emulation modes.
Robert
TRUE Basic Bronze is what I have. You can set up a box of any size and then program to a grid as you like. They had some pretty good game demos that did prove the graphics were multi-colored and scale-able. I am thinking that pixel-to-pixel might be too small to start with. This will allow you to adjust an icon size to suit.
Bronze $39USD
Silver $139 USD
Gold $499 USD
The thing is that you might have to buy the Gold to get the serial port. Look elsewhere.
You would also have to use the com object in VB to connect to the device you want to communicate with.
-Phil
I've not used graphics modes (in this century), but TeraTerm emulates VT100 through VT382, and its free; maybe this can do it?.
From there, "cat -u /dev/com3 & cat -u > /dev/com3"
Seyon is the Linux package that emulates a Textronix 4014, DEC VT02, and ANSI.
Xterm is another Linux package that emulates a Textronix 4014 and other graphic terminals.
http://vt100.net/tektronix/4014-um/4014-um.pdf
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/45/idpl/2391297/numer/1/nazwa/seyon
I am not surprised that the Tektronix 1401 emulation is available in Linux/Unix. Thus the installation of Cygwin to port over from Linux to Windows. It should work. But starting from scratch with VB might be less of a learning curve for Windows user.
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Text-Terminal-HOWTO.html
Of course, if you just install Linux as a second boot - the Tektronix 1401 or 4 emulation would be directly available. Or you could build a LiveCD with the terminal support in Linux and not mess with the underlying machine.
Knoppix Linux may already have Seyon and Xterm installed in a LiveCD. This would be the easiest way to go if you don't need Windows in the background. Ubuntu can be created to boot on a USBstick and have both installed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terminal_emulators
Jeff T.
Go with Jeff T (Unsoundcode). He did Quiktrol for me several years ago and something similar may meet your needs.
Cheers,
I have attached a sample plus a spin file to create a graphic, I don't know how it compares to other such terminals as I have never used one but it's nice to have the option to customize.
The example contains several functions, set pixel,draw line,draw elipse, draw filled elipse, draw rectangle and functions for color/size of pens and brushes.
The colors are referenced by numbers corresponding to the resistor color code 0 through 9.
The coordinates are limited to values of 255 at the moment as I am still using byte values for the testing and the application is set up for Win 32bit.
Jeff T.
I forgot to add the link to see the Quicktrol software in action in my previous post.
http://youtu.be/JvG6TBVrh8c
Cheers,
I'll have to evaluate how some of these work.
Bean
Elipse,FilledElipse,Rectangle,Line and Set_Pixel are all usable using one function to which parameters are passed. This version allows for plotting graphics anywhere on the 800 x 500 pixel canvas.
All the graphics objects take 6 parameters, function,color,x1,y1,x2,y2 with the exception of Set_pixel which takes function,color,x1,y1
The data transmitted is 14 bytes 4 for the header and 10 for graphics information.
There are a couple of other things to play with, a function to alter pen size an erase function and thrown in at the last minute a DrawText function.
The zip contains a small example that should get you going with all the current features.
Jeff T.