Re: 800x480 LCD Gui driver

Hello,

you may want to have a look at http://www.lcdproc.org/using.php3. It
describes one uses LCDproc within some GUI elements.

Despite that you would need some knowledge about GUI programming to
write a driver that opens a GUI windows. Inside that it will just need
to write text.

The svga driver is not a good reference as it is directly drawing to the
graphic card (using svgalib). The xosd driver would be a better example.

Regards,
Markus


On 06.07.2011 04:03, Peter Buelow wrote:
> I've been dinking around the lcdproc documentation and the Myth lists
> and documentation looking for a solution that would effectively
> implement LCDProc on a standard X based GUI window. I don't see one
> that matches what I think I want. Has anyone done something like this?
> I see the glcdlib, but that's not what I'm looking for. I don't
> believe the SVGA driver is quite right either. It should be smart
> enough to handle much larger displays with a full complement of
> capabilities.
>
> If there isn't anything like this, I am already starting to tinker
> with a driver model to do it, but I'm pretty new to Myth and to the
> LCDProc system. I have some ideas, but am not sure what would pass
> here and what wouldn't. My current thinking is the following.
>
> A driver that doesn't implement a graphical frontend, but rather
> becomes a forwarding driver to some GUI system. Something similar to
> the text driver, but with an eye towards a full GUI. My goal is to do
> the actual display either using libmyth, or vanilla Qt (haven't worked
> that out yet, but Qt is the leading contender to make this work faster
> and be more portable). Communication is undecided at this point, but
> probably mqueue's or similar. Does it need to be a two part driver?
> Looking at the documentation on the drivers, I don't see how it would
> work as a single entity, assuming you want to start the GUI window
> before Myth starts. I don't see how a driver could be both Qt and live
> in the lcdproc driver model.
>
> I'm looking for some sort of feedback to give me some direction if
> something like this doesn't exist yet. Or, if it does, how it works,
> and what I need to do.
>
> Thanks
>
> -Pete