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#
-# $Id: README.Drivers,v 1.3 2000/05/21 06:20:35 reinelt Exp $
+# $Id: README.Drivers,v 1.4 2001/03/09 13:08:11 ltoetsch Exp $
#
How to write new display drivers for lcd4linux
@@ -7,9 +7,13 @@ How to write new display drivers for lcd4linux
If you plan to write a new display driver for lcd4linux, you should follow
this guidelines:
-* use Skeleton.c as a start point
+* use Skeleton.c as a start point.
+ You might also have a look at Text.c
-* create a new sourcefile <drivername>.c and add it to the bottom of Makefile.am
+* create a new sourcefile <drivername>.c and add it to the bottom of
+ Makefile.am
+
+* add an entry to configure.in
* there's no need for a <drivername>.h
@@ -45,10 +49,10 @@ this guidelines:
{ "" }
};
-* write the correspondig init(), clear(), put(), bar() and flush()-functions.
- There's no need to use a framebuffer and display its contents with the flush()-
- call (as in MatrixOrbital.c), you can directly write to the display in the put()-
- and bar()-functions, and use an empty flush()-function. But if you have a limited
- number of user-defined characters, and therefore you have to do some sort of
- 'character reduction' or similar stuff, you will have to use a framebuffer and
- the flush()-call.
+* write the correspondig init(), clear(), put(), bar(), quit() and
+ flush()-functions. There's no need to use a framebuffer and display its
+ contents with the flush()- call (as in MatrixOrbital.c), you can directly
+ write to the display in the put()- and bar()-functions, and use an empty
+ flush()-function. But if you have a limited number of user-defined
+ characters, and therefore you have to do some sort of 'character reduction'
+ or similar stuff, you will have to use a framebuffer and the flush()-call.