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Re: Another New NXT Utility
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lugnet.robotics.nxt
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Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:57:23 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics.nxt, John Hansen wrote:
> Michael Anderson had a great idea for an NXT tool for BricxCC. He envisioned a
> PC screen which would show whatever was on the NXT screen, only scaled to a
> larger size. He mentioned his idea to me and a couple hours later it was
> finished (or, at least, ready for a first release).
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> I really like the way this NXT Screen utility turned out. It was extremely easy
> to write as well, which is always nice. :-)
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> http://bricxcc.sourceforge.net/nextscreen.zip
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> I'll build it into BricxCC before the next release but the stand alone version
> works great on its own. With USB it can get all 800 bytes in somewhere between
> 45 and 65 milliseconds which is reasonably fast. You could use it with
> bluetooth but it would be many times slower.
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> It lets you set the refresh rate in milliseconds with the fastest rate being
> 50ms and the slowest being 99999 milliseconds. You can turn on and off the
> polling of screen data. At present it only reads the normal screen memory but I
> might add the option for reading either normal or popup screen memory. You can
> also set the scale factor from 1x to 4x.
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> The utility also lets you copy the current image to the clipboard or save it to
> a bitmap (via a right click popup menu and Ctrl+C or Ctrl+S). I plan on using
> it to grab screen shots for the book I'm working on.
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> Let me know what you think of it.
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> John Hansen
Hi John,
Wow, that's fantastic! I've been dreaming of such a utility since I bought my
NXT about a month ago. I don't have my brick with me here at work, but I'm
looking forward to giving the utility a whirl once I'm back home this evening.
Does this mean the end of digital camera photos of NXT screens? Only time will
tell!
Dave
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