Slow Graphical LCDs
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2016 7:59 pm
Hello All,
I have found a way to allow the graphical LCDs to operate much faster in Flowcode 7. It's currently a bit hacky but it is yielding good results. If you have a display which you wished ran faster then let me know which display you're using and which Microcontroller and I'll put together an updated component for you. Testing with the EBM001 display on an 8-bit PIC (ECIO40P @ 48MHz) I got a speed increase of approx 240%.
In the next few days I want to make this a bit less hacky and so it will work more universally with less modification to components.
I have also created a component to allow graphical displays to be used like an alphanumeric component. e.g. to allow text to be streamed to the display with a cursor instead of having to use the coordinate system. It's working well at the moment so assuming all is well in testing I'll post this tomorrow.
I have found a way to allow the graphical LCDs to operate much faster in Flowcode 7. It's currently a bit hacky but it is yielding good results. If you have a display which you wished ran faster then let me know which display you're using and which Microcontroller and I'll put together an updated component for you. Testing with the EBM001 display on an 8-bit PIC (ECIO40P @ 48MHz) I got a speed increase of approx 240%.
In the next few days I want to make this a bit less hacky and so it will work more universally with less modification to components.
I have also created a component to allow graphical displays to be used like an alphanumeric component. e.g. to allow text to be streamed to the display with a cursor instead of having to use the coordinate system. It's working well at the moment so assuming all is well in testing I'll post this tomorrow.