#11 Crystalfontz 632 serial LCD bugs

[Tamas Hoznek]

I'm testing the v0.5 preview. With the Crystalfontz
632 (16 char x 2 lines) serial LCD, there are numerous
problems:

- Scroll bar (on the right side) in the 'Function
menu' does not always show the correct position in the
menu. The top 'crossbar' is never visible
- Selection in the 'Function menu': when 'Select
title' is reached, it will be overlaid with 'Player
functions' scrolling across the display after one
second delay
- When 'Player functions' is selected via Enter, the
list of M3U playlists appears. However, the currently
highlighted playlist name is overlaid after one second
delay with the scrolling display of the previous
playlist
- Selecting any menu option from the 'Select title'
menu will do exactly what the previously highlighted
option was supposed to do. So, 'Stop title' actually
pauses, 'Next title' stops playing, 'Previous title'
selects the next song and so on
- the biggest problem is: when an M3U playlist is
selected from the 'Function menu', Winamp does not
load the playlist. The menu options disappear, and the
LCD returns to the status display mode. If there was a
playlist loaded into Winamp (or if it was playing
something), it gets cleared, and Winamp stops playing.
The playlist is lost.

Unfortunately, these bugs prevent any use of the
Crystalfontz LCD...

[Markus Zehnder]

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Thanks for your feedback, looks like a bit of work for me... :)

Most probably it's related to the small display size, in
theory everything should be dynamic, but in praxis...

More bad news: I won't be back home before mid February 02

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I am surprised you even got the software to work. I have had
NO LUCK whatsoever in getting this software to display
anything with my 634!

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I have build a device, which uses a PIC an RF module and a
4x20 SEIKO LCD module. The pic received data from the
RS232 ports, which are the commands send by the plugin for
Crystalfontz 634. I have then added some code, to convert
the Crystalfontz commands found on the manual of the
display into appropriate commands for My LCD.