Hello all!
First, let me welcome my good buddy Frank on the board,
Francois Vezina said:
Hello all... The "Frank" in question that Marc is talking about is me
I have taken control of the VU meters and the character display (not too hard for the character display mind you but there was a little trick to know on how to clear the screen). I will be showing this to Marc in the morning (it's 1:45am here, time to hit the sack soon). Refresh rate of 20fps for all the VU meters (configurable - it can actually go at a maximum of 50fps without a problem). The little video I sent Marc has the VU meters update running will the character display shows some scrolling text and then I'm updating every VU meters with a random value - quite fast if you ask me... we may post this later. There's just one tiny bit of an issue that I need to figure out - the refresh is very fast but for some reason there are glitches here and there... I need to see if this is related to the serial port or something...
The question was asked if MAC will be supported... I'm writing the code in java at the moment. I know that Mac OSX has its own version of java so I don't know how much will be supported but I am not using anything special other than a communications jar file that is needed (in Windows it needs the jar, a dll and a properties file). We will have to test our application on MAC when we get it further done
Next thing on the display refresh will be the time stamp and the channel. Once that is done I'll start working on reading/updating all the faders... then, well, we'll see
As Marc would say, we'll keep you posted!
Francois
it's nice to have another guy to talk to!
Frank sent me a video with his new routines running. The meter bridge runs so fast that the camera has a bit of a problem displaying all frames!
That's good news! Frank paid tribute to our good old Commodore 64 days and wrote a text side scroller for the d8b, I laughed when I first saw this! I thought I'd share the fun, take a look right here:
This might not look like much, but let me describe what has been done:
- First try to use Java (it works, obviously!)
- Complete rewrite of init routines
- Meter Bridge routine that's WAY faster (I mean, by 300% or close!)
- New VFD Text routine that works to show info
As you can see, Frank is not screwing around, in 4 hours he improved my protoypes that took me something like a months to do! (Though, it helps when all the reverse engineering has been done for you! *Poke at Frank*)
That's it, more to come we'll start to work on faders!
Cheers all,
Marc
