Re: [Lcd4linux-devel] Histograms

[Scott F. <sc...@st...>]

Nevermind, false alarm. Rebooting my computer fixed it. I guess all the
crashing and debugging corrupted my computer. lol

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 4:59 AM, Scott Flynn <sc...@st...> wrote:

> Well I did something to it and now there's a bug. I'll try to fix that
> before I go to bed.
>
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 3:26 AM, Scott Flynn <sc...@st...> wrote:
>
>> I decided to work on this. I think I'm understanding the bars code. The
>> one thing that confuses me is pack_segments. I found that it cleaned up a
>> lot of garbage however, so I'm assuming that's all it's for. I only dealt
>> with direction east in the character creation because only east works for
>> me. Outside of west maybe, It might be a limitation with my CFA635. I'm
>> ordering a picoLCD here soon so I'll have a graphics display to play with
>> and I can work on a graphics version of the histogram, unless someone else
>> picks it up. Anyhow, there's a diff attached.
>>
>> Why don't westbound bars work?
>>
>>
>> On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Scott Flynn <sc...@st...> wrote:
>>
>>> I've always liked these, and would love if LCD4Linux had a histogram
>>> widget. Basically it's a heartbeat monitor. The bars are nice, but
>>> they only show the state right now. Histograms show the state over the
>>> past however long. Here's an example of what I mean.
>>>
>>> .....|*****|*****|*****|*****|*****|*****|*****|
>>> .....|.....|*****|*****|*****|*****|*****|*****|
>>> .....|.....|.....|*****|*****|*****|*****|*****|
>>> .....|.....|.....|.....|*****|*****|*****|*****|
>>> .....|.....|.....|.....|.....|*****|*****|*****|
>>> .....|.....|.....|.....|.....|.....|*****|*****|
>>> .....|.....|.....|.....|.....|.....|.....|*****|
>>> .....|.....|.....|.....|.....|.....|.....|.....|
>>>
>>>
>>> That may or may not show up right. Try looking at it in a terminal.
>>> These are the 8 special chars used for the histogram. If you have more
>>> special chars, you can complete the spectrum. For every row in a LCD's
>>> characters, the better the histogram looks. Mine has 8 rows.
>>>
>>> It basically ticks every so often and moves the history right or left,
>>> appending the new value representation (the LCD's special char).
>>>
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