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by Giacomo
Wed Jul 01, 2009 12:53 am
Forum: Developer's Forum for Windows
Topic: Accessing LEDs and the LCD display on a SpacePilot
Replies: 27
Views: 63314

Thanks, Jim. It works. Nice the features of displaying the current time (0x04), which makes me thinking that maybe the SP has an internal font generator...? In any case, I used the Freetype-generated bitmap, already available in my project, for the fonts (with FT_RENDER_MODE_MONO, since we can't dis...
by Giacomo
Tue Jun 30, 2009 5:36 am
Forum: Developer's Forum for Windows
Topic: Accessing LEDs and the LCD display on a SpacePilot
Replies: 27
Views: 63314

Thanks Jwick for the useful information. I use the SP to drive an underwater robot and it was very important to show on the display the status of the controller. It works perfectly as you described, using standard HID_ stuff. The refresh rate, using the unpacked mode, is about 400 ms, more than enou...