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Good stuff!

Keep them coming!

Nice, I like the second one


I guess we let the genie out of the bottle with this mod. I guess that everyone just wants to "pimp" their radios

Thanks!
If you have time, do it!

I can not test!
When does will recompile the Windows version (eePe with new splash screen upload function)?

The windows one has been done for a few days. It doesn't auto update from within eepe.
Goto the eepe google site, and download it from the main page link.

You'll see a new icon on the top bar that lets you change your splash screen.

You also need the latest firmware for your radio.

It's a blast, and again, good work!

Cheers.

erazz wrote:...I guess that everyone just wants to "pimp" their radios

And people asked me why would anyone want to do that...

Pimped out and righteous with ER9x yo! yeaahhh boy! Bling bling, with er9x, my radio sing.


Now.. about addign an animated splash screen... you know it, they want it... (okay maybe with the new skyboard.. more memory.. sd card, that would be cool.. it's a 'just cause we can' type of thing.) 5 frame animated b/w gif. sure... why not... la la la..

Probably OK on the new board. A full splash screen is 1K bytes, maybe have a main background screen, then a much smaller part is the actual animation, say 24x16. Each 'frame' would then only be 48 bytes.
Also, is it worth trying to compress the splash image, or will the uncompress code take up as much space as is saved?

Mike.

Just an idea I had. Also with a compressed file, which is faster, decompressing data then displaying it, or just displaying it.
Sometimes compressed data takes more than uncompressed too, depends on the method.

Again, it was a thought, and definately more suited for the new board. I've made some warning symbols too for the radio, alert graphics, instead of just text.. (just playing around with stuff) and thread jacking...

I actually started work on compressing images and displaying compressed eimages and 5 frame "flicks"

The pictures should actually compress really well as they are pretty simple. Not to much time to deal with it though...

Ooooo...

Nice, well, at least it's a thought. Not a necessity, just a nicity... nicety.. nicehty... c**p english. Wich witch is which?

Animated splash... tres chic!

Just had a 'play' with the compiler. Ifm you define the splash image as:
unsigned char __attribute__ ((section (".fini7")))s9xsplash[] = {
Then the splash image becomes the LAST item stored in the flash, even after all the library routines are linked in. This means it could be of variable length. So, as long as there is a structure defining the format of any splash image (with animation parts), we could load anything as long as it still fits in the flash.
There are several .fini sections that may be used for this positioning.

Mike.

so... like multiple flash images, or on that's 1028x64, and 'blit' every 128 pixels into the frame,, and have a 10 frame animation? or a random flash page every time you boot up, if you load it up with 2,3 or more images? Hmmmmm...

cr8tive_leo wrote:The windows one has been done for a few days. It doesn't auto update from within eepe.
Goto the eepe google site, and download it from the main page link.

You'll see a new icon on the top bar that lets you change your splash screen.

You also need the latest firmware for your radio.

It's a blast, and again, good work!

Cheers.

Thanks!

Me like it

^^^ Yeah that!

Noice!