[Lcdproc] Overloading the 'output' token

[Stefan Herdler]

Hi,

Ethan Dicks wrote:
> It probably won't take me more than a couple of hours to code up and
> test this change to MtxOrb.c, so I'm wondering if anyone has any
> opinions one way or the other about this technique.  As it stands, the
> documentation does warn that the value passed to 'output' is
> driver-specific.  More than most, the Matrix Orbital driver has to
> handle a variety of GPO configurations from LCDs to VFDs, new, old,
> etc.  It seems unlikely (I know... famous last words) that anyone will
> produce an LCD with more than 16 GPOs (let alone 24), but I would
> never dare to say that it will never happen.
>   
a few weeks ago (late December) there had been a thread about 
controlling special icons on display.

My suggestion was to create a kind of all-purpose interface to enable 
the clients sending display specific commands to the driver.

The first approaches looked promising to me, but sadly the development 
stalled, due to lack of response.


I personally don't own a display that would support that features, but 
from the side of the client author I appreciate a official and "clean" 
way to handle this "extended" features.

Regards Stefan