Re: [lcd4linux] Syslog overflow: "unable to compact bar characters"

[Stefan U. H. <st...@he...>]

Hi Michael,

thanks for your prompt help. - However, for some reason your answer got
plonked as spam and today I found it just by chance while browsing the
online-archives ...

> > What is here the problem?
>
> I suppose you're using a lot of different bars, maybe double bars.
>
> A HD44780 display has only 8 user-defineable characters, and it is not
> possible to map every combination of (double-)bars to this 8 chars.
> lcd4linux tries to be very clever in finding a way to display your bars
> with the available chars, but if the situation gets too complex it may
> fail. This is what this message is about.
>
> Hint #1: don't mix horizontal and vertical bars.
> Hint #2: dont mix E(east) and W(west) bars
>
> If this does not help, please post your full lcd4linux.conf
What I did: I threw everyting not neccessarily needed out of my
lcd4linux.conf. Now I don't have any errors. - That's good.

However, to understand the Problem, here's the initial situation:

In my lcd4linux.conf I had set "Icons 8", defined all the sample icons
and bar-widgets from the sampe-config but used only two Icons ("Rain"
and "Blob") and a split horizontal bar (BusyBar).

Now, what exactly causes the problem? If I get you right, this must be
(a) - that I had set "icons 8" and used a bar on top

Or could it be alternativle also
(b) - that I had defined icons that were not needed
(c) - that I had defined many bar-widgets I were not using
because the bare existence of these definitions in the config file uses
the resources, even if they are not displayed in the screen-definition?

By the way: Is there a possibility to get my display to show the "°"
symbol  as such, when it's part of a displayed text (I read 
temperatures from a file, so that I want "xx.x °C").

Thanks a lot

Stefan.


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