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Re: analog dials, vu meter etc...

• Posted by don cole <doncole at p?cbell?net> Feb 04, 2008
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Al Getz wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Rubens,
> 
> I was recently thinking of adding that stuff into WinClass because
> i had a few people ask about this kind of display and currently
> there is no class for this.  This is however a 7 segment class
> that displays digits that look like 7 segment digits like
> on a calculator or something and the size and color can be changed
> to just about anything.  I didnt care too much about this myself,
> but after looking into it and creating the class it came out
> pretty cool looking, and it's easy to add 7 segment digits to
> a program now.
> I'd like to do the same thing with the 'round' analog displays,
> and perhaps those zero center VU meter like displays too.
> They do add something nice to a program.
> 
> Oh yeah, the program where the 7 segment digits came in handy
> was my VoltageMonitor program, where voltages external to the
> computer are measured using a special ic chip that i developed.
> Originally it only used the standard Windows fonts but then
> someone said, "hey why not make it look like an actual voltmeter",
> so that's when i created the 7 segment digits class.
> 
> 
> Al
> 
> E boa sorte com sua programacao Euphoria!
> 
> 
> My bumper sticker: "I brake for LED's"
> 

  One thing you can do with an analog meter that you can't do with a digital 
meter is check the smoothness of a potentiometer.

  Just thought I'd throw that in.

Don Cole