Display text on LCD displays (even on multiple ones). Allow to create windows (frames) on display, and to combine them (split, add, duplicate, scroll). See http://mbed.org/users/hlipka/notebook/lcdwindow/ for more information.

Dependents:   Mbell

multiwindow.h

Committer:
hlipka
Date:
2011-02-22
Revision:
9:2fe93daa2106
Parent:
2:5ac5bab7daaf

File content as of revision 9:2fe93daa2106:

/*
 * mbed LCDWindow library
* Copyright (c) 2010 Hendrik Lipka
* 
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*/

#ifndef MULTIWINDOW_H_
#define MULTIWINDOW_H_

#include "window.h"

#include "vector"

using namespace std;

/**
 * Class for combining multiple windows into a single one (by stacking them on top of each other).
 * It is assumed that all windows are of the same width (but they might be of different height).
*/
class MultiWindow: public Window
{
    public:
        /**
         * @param lcds the vector of windows to stack. Aggregated height is calculated as sum of all heights
        */
        MultiWindow(vector<Window*> lcds);
        /**
         * writes text to the parent window which contains the given line
        */
        virtual void writeText(const unsigned int column, const unsigned int row, const char text[]);
        virtual int getColumns(){return _columns;};
        virtual int getRows(){return _rows;};
        /**
         * clears all parent windows
        */
        virtual void clear();
        virtual void character(int column, int row, int c);

    private:
        vector<Window*> _lcds;
        int _columns;
        int _rows;
};

#endif