LCD Use

[napierzaza]

I only have a LC 2x20. Should I bother changing the number of items to 7 or is 5 enough? I'm not sure I want to bother with it but I've never seen the interface. I don't have anything other than a 2x20 though.

[Mr. zip]

I thought MIOS used a 2x20 by default? When I had mine together, I used a 2x20 no problem, don't think I had to go through and change + recompile

[nILS]

16 characters = 4 items.

20 characters = 5 items.

Your choice. You should use 5 items though, more items == better.

I'm just really curious how you wanna display 7 items on a 2x20 ???

And, yes, the default is 2x20 (5 items)

[napierzaza]

Oh, well the SID page said that it was default for 2x16 and the default items were 5. Anyhow it doesn't matter, I didn't really think I need more than five anyhow.

The front panel uses a much smaller LCD from what I can tell though, way shorter than mine.

Thanks.

[stryd_one]

Oh, well the SID page said that it was default for 2x16 and the default items were 5

I wanted to correct that, but I can't find it. Where's that?

All I can find is this: "It consists of a 2x20 LCD" below a pic with 5 items, and later on, this: "Alternatively a 2x16 LCD can be used (of costs do matter). This is no optimal solution, as the main page won't be displayed completely anymore. Within menu pages only 4 instead of 5 parameters are visible the same time (page has to be scrolled to see the remaining parameters of the same page)."

That's from the control surface page.

[napierzaza]

Argh, you're right, I can't find it. Perhaps I was remembering that it said you could use the 2x16 and then saw the really small hole in the panel design layout.