Video questions
mosquito56
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·As I continure my propellor education I realize that the prop only does one part of the input,process,output phase. Buttons and leds's are fine for now but I see I will have to figure out how the monitors work.
· I am using the GEAR simulator until my education board arrives and I can't figure how how to move the output where I want it. Can any point me to a tutorial on how a monitor and t.v. work in terms of where memory is and how to relocate, resize etc?
··I also need to learn what a pixel is how how it relates to the screen.
· I wrote a program that reads a .txt files and prints it to the screen. It uses line char to goto next line. The problem is that the line char gets printed also. If the prog recognizes the line char to goto the next line and skips the printchr, why is the linechar symbol showing on the screen?
·· Any thoughts would be appreciated as I have spent almost a week on the programming side and have pretty much exahusted the possiblilities. I expect the wiring to take a massive amount of learning and cooking before I figure it out.
Don
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Mosquito: An animal which buzzes in your ear and never stops. He may byte you, he may nibble you, but you will know you were bit.
· I am using the GEAR simulator until my education board arrives and I can't figure how how to move the output where I want it. Can any point me to a tutorial on how a monitor and t.v. work in terms of where memory is and how to relocate, resize etc?
··I also need to learn what a pixel is how how it relates to the screen.
· I wrote a program that reads a .txt files and prints it to the screen. It uses line char to goto next line. The problem is that the line char gets printed also. If the prog recognizes the line char to goto the next line and skips the printchr, why is the linechar symbol showing on the screen?
·· Any thoughts would be appreciated as I have spent almost a week on the programming side and have pretty much exahusted the possiblilities. I expect the wiring to take a massive amount of learning and cooking before I figure it out.
Don
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Mosquito: An animal which buzzes in your ear and never stops. He may byte you, he may nibble you, but you will know you were bit.
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although it's well worth it.
Regarding carriage return / line feed / etc. There are several different conventions for end of line characters. The general Window/DOS
convention is to use a carriage return (13) and a line feed (10) separately similar to how they were used with teletypes. The MacOS
by convention uses a carriage return as a single end of line character. Linux and Unix use a line feed as a new line character. Different
terminal programs respect their appropriate line ending character(s) while usually providing options to recognize the other conventions.
Native MacOS programs for example will do the "go to the beginning of the next line" thing when they see a carriage return (13) and
often will display a character of some kind for the line feed (10).