2010-10-07, 09:49 AM
I was searching for an upgraded version of the iMON sofware for my VFD display on my Antec Fusion case and stumbled upon a new release from Soundgraph, the authors of iMON SW/HW.
There is a new API available that hooks into the iMON manager in plugin mode and takes full control over it. Supports both VFD and LCD mode + all icons. Even equalizer-data can be set.
This API would be a perfect base for a new plugin for NPVR that could display all sorts of data on the VFD/LCD without the hassle of using LCDSmartie, generating external text strings etc. It would be perfectly integrated in the plugin code. If I was a bit more fluent on Windows programming I would start right away, unfortunaltely I am more on the Java side :o.
Anyway, here´s the links:
http://www.soundgraph.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7375
Note that the API requires a new version of iMON (which is available from the post above)
And from the API specs:
There is a new API available that hooks into the iMON manager in plugin mode and takes full control over it. Supports both VFD and LCD mode + all icons. Even equalizer-data can be set.
This API would be a perfect base for a new plugin for NPVR that could display all sorts of data on the VFD/LCD without the hassle of using LCDSmartie, generating external text strings etc. It would be perfectly integrated in the plugin code. If I was a bit more fluent on Windows programming I would start right away, unfortunaltely I am more on the Java side :o.
Anyway, here´s the links:
http://www.soundgraph.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7375
Note that the API requires a new version of iMON (which is available from the post above)
And from the API specs:
Quote:1. About iMON Display API
SoundGraph have supplied the various remote control solutions and display devices to Retail market and our ODM/OEM partners. And there have been lots of requests from our users and 3rd party developers to open API for iMON display devices.
For this reason we release iMON Display API now and will try to release the update of this API later after considering the request from users and 3rd party developers.
iMON Display API will help 3rd party developer to make their application to control iMON Display easily. It uses Display Plug-in mode feature of iMON, newly added in iMON 7.91.0929 Beta version. In order to make this API work properly, iMON 7.91.0929 Beta version or the later version should be installed and because this API must communicate with iMON, iMON should be always running. Currently it supports our VFD products and LCD products.