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LCDC

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The most advanced software for your display!

LCDC is an application that displays information on your LCD, VFD or PLED screen. At present it is geared towards powering the Matrix Orbital products as these have some great features like GPO (General purpose outputs, that can be use to turn things on and off!) and Keypad connectivity. The number of things that LCDC can do is expandable by Plugins that add functionality to the application and hopefully new plugins will be added at various intervals to add even more functionality. Also the Delphi 5 source code for a blank plugin is available, so for the brave of heart you can add and write your own plugins!

How to obtain a Key:

Log onto www.lcdc.cc/bundled and activate your copy of LCDC using the Activation Key provided with your MX display. Enter the Registration Key generated into LCDC from the about page to unlock your free copy of this powerful monitoring application.

What's a plugin?

A plugin is a small program that adds a whole new range of events, actions and variables to LCDC. Currently the plugins that are available are:

 

TFR Transferer plugin
FAH Folding@Home
FRA FRAPS 1.9C Frame Rate data pickup www.fraps.com
IPA IP Address (External)
RSS Rich site summary
MM5 Motherboard Monitor 5
MUL Multimedia extensions
STI Seti@Home
HOT Hotkeys
SPF Speedfan
SQT Stock quotes
TIM Timers and Alarms
HIS Historical data graphing
UDS United devices stats
WA2 Winamp 2 (includes winamp plugin as well)
WA3 Winamp 3 (includes winamp plugin as well)
WEA Weather information
ZOO Zoom Player
TSK Teamspeak 2
   
Beta plugins
TRI Trillian Pro plugin : www.Trillian.cc
HSM Hardware System Monitor (hmonitor) : www.hmonitor.com
ANI Animation (And designer)
IRR Infrared remote
BSP BSplayer plugin : www.bsplayer.org
LPT Printer Port data line control
WMP Windows media player
MSG Accepts TCp data and WM_COPYDATA

 

Why is this better than other apps, and why are you charging for it?

When this started I did it for a bit of fun, however as I expanded it I begin to realize how much these LCD/VFD's where capable of and wanted to exploit that. I have now put a lot of time and effort in to designing and building a full application that can do a lot more than others and one of my main priorities is stability. We decided that rather than have this a small sideline product we would spend some effort on it to make a complete package that will give support and upgrades. I like others have a wife and two kids to support, I wish I could spend all my time doing stuff for free, but that's just not the way I work... having said that, there is some great free software out there!

Thanks go to...

  • Rob Young aka CheeseMan for a LOT of input and testing.
  • Henry Jakl at Matrix Orbital for testing and ideas and the help with support additional screens.
  • Luke Hamberg for a lot of testing feedback and input into the SQT plugin.
  • Norbert Riedel for the ICM idea, and for also providing the translation file.
  • Geoff Nusbaum for writing the first plugin (GPH) while in beta and living with my changes!
  • All beta testers who provided feedback!!

Links...

LCDC Home Page
LCDC Manual & Help File
LCDC Downloads

Visit the Matrix Orbital Forum for support, suggestions and inquiries.

Contact the author of LCDC at Matthew@dps.uk.com


Last modified 2010-02-26 09:34 AM
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