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# LED marquee mod
*by Vanessa Dannenberg*
This mod provides set of alphanumeric LED marquee panels, controlled by Mesecons' Digilines mod.
Simply place a panel, right-click it, and set a channel.
Simply place one or more panels, and set a channel on just the left-most or upper-left one.
Then send a character, a string, or one of several control words to that channel from a Mesecons Lua Controller and the mod will try to display it. The panels use the standard 7-bit ASCII character set (with a few alterations).
Then send a character, a string, or one of several control words or codes to that channel from a Mesecons Lua Controller and the mod will try to display it.
A single character will be displayed on the connected panel. A numeric message (i.e. not a string) will display the first digit on the connected panel.
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As with a single line, printing continues from node to node until the program either finds a panel with a different non-empty channel than the first one, or if it finds a panel that's facing the wrong way.
If the program finds something other than a panel, it wraps to the next line. If it finds something other than a panel twice in a row, that signals that text has wrapped off of the last row, and printing is cut off.
If the program finds something other than a panel, it wraps to the next line. If it finds something other than a panel twice in a row, that signals that text has wrapped off of the last row, and printing is cut off there.
Lines of panels don't need to be all the same length, the program will wrap as needed, with the left margin always being aligned with the panel the LuaController is connected to.
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Any unrecognized symbol or character, whether part of a string or singularly is ignored, except as noted below.
This mod uses the full ISO-8859-1 character set (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1 for details), plus a bunch of symbols stuffed into the empty 128-159 range that should be useful on a marquee:
This mod uses the full ISO-8859-1 character set (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1 for details), plus a bunch of symbols stuffed into the normally-empty 128-159 range that should be useful on this sort of display:
* 128,129: musical notes
* 130-140: box drawing glyphs
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* 157-159: smileys
The panels also respond to these control messages:
the keywords "off", "colon" and "period" translate to a blank space, ":", and ".", respectively (they're leftover from the nixie tubes fork, but might be useful anyway)
* the keywords "off", "colon" and "period" translate to a blank space, ":", and ".", respectively (they're leftover from the nixie tubes fork, but might be useful anyway)
* "del" is mapped to character #127, a square with an X in it.
* "allon" is mapped to character #144, the full/all-on block graphic.
* "cursor" or character code 31 will display a short, thick, flashing line at the bottom of the panel.
* "off_multi" turns all panels in a lineup off
* "allon_multi" turns on all LEDs of all panels in a lineup.
* "off_multi" turns all panels in a lineup or wall off - essentially a "clear screen" command.
* "allon_multi" turns on all LEDs of all panels in a lineup/wall (by filling them with char #144).
A byte value of 0 to 27 will change colors (i.e. string.char(0 to 27) ). Color values 0 to 11 are:
A byte value of 0 to 27 in a string will change colors (i.e. string.char(0 to 27) ).
Color values 0 to 11 are:
Red (0), orange, yellow, lime, green, aqua, cyan, sky blue, blue, violet, magenta, or red-violet (11)
Colors 12 to 23 are the same as 0 to 11, but lower brightness.
Colors 24 - 27 are white, light grey, medium grey, and dim grey.
Colors 24 - 27 are white, light grey, medium grey, and dim grey (or think of them as full bright white, a bit less bright, medium brightness, and dim white).
The left-most/"master" panel will remember the last color used, and defaults to red.
The last color that was used is stored in the left-most/upper-left "master" panel's metadata, and defaults to red. It should persist across reboots.
A byte value of 28 will act as a line feed (I would have used 10, but that's a color code :-P )
A byte value of 28 in a string will act as a line feed (I would have used 10, but that's a color code :-P )
A byte value of 29 signals a cursor position command. The next two byte values select a column and row, respectively. The next character after the row byte will be printed there, and the rest of the string then continues printing from that spot onwards.
A byte value of 29 in a string signals a cursor position command. The next two byte values select a column and row, respectively. The next character after the row byte will be printed there, and the rest of the string then continues printing from that spot onward with normal line wrapping, colors and so forth. Note that any string that does NOT contain cursor positioning commands will automatically start printing at the upper-left.
You can use "get" and "getstr" to read the one character from the connected panel. These messages will not read the other panels in the lineup.