Hi, Sidereal,

Yes, it did occur to me that Win98 might be causing you some trouble, but I hesitated to say so because I had no firm knowledge of that. All the six boxes in my house are running XP Pro. Since of course I have to do computer support for all my relatives, friends, and neighbors, I try ...

Hi, Sidereal,

I saw Matrix guy Johnny Patino's message and downloaded and examined his C code. I also followed the link you reference above and read Ramon de Klein's excellent treatise on serial communications under Windows.

All I can say is this: for me, life is too short to get that heavily ...

Hi, Sidereal.

As you know from this thread I have my VFD only a week and have been learning to program it. I am using Borland C++ Builder 6 and a 60-day evaluation copy of MarshallSoft's serial communications library, downloaded from http://www.marshallsoft.com . That site has a version for VC ...

Hi, Miles,

I am interested in your remarks about the difficulties of animation. Let me explain. In some ways my MO VFD display reminds me of the simple DOS screens we programmed in the olden days: direct cursor positioning, not much graphics, fairly simple character output. If that analogy is ...

Hi, Miles,

Yes, the VFD is not at all hard to program. Once I figured out how to integrate the MarshallSoft serial comm. library into the Borland IDE, it was pretty smooth sailing.

I can already display anything I want on the VFD. Next I will look at doing some simple animation. I suppose people ...

Hi, MO Folks,

Just got my new LK204-24-USB with insert which works like a charm using LCDC. Whole installation process and setup was a no-brainer!

But I bought this toy as a fun programming hobby. I am using Borland C++ Builder 6 and just downloaded an eval. version of the MarshallSoft serial ...