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LewW
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Posted: 10:31pm 25 Mar 2021

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Hi all,

I am using a Micromite Plus E100 with MMbasic Ver 5.05.03 and the SAVE IMAGE is not working for me. I have tried it with two different (5" and 7") SSD1963 displays.

When I use SAVE IMAGE Screen$, with Screen$ = "Screen.bmp"

or more directly, SAVE IMAGE "Screen.bmp"

I get the message "SAVE IMAGE not available on thi"

I was not always getting a truncated message, and I'm not sure what changed (although I did update the firmware from 5.04.09 Beta 4 at one stage). The full message was "SAVE IMAGE not available on this display", or something equivalent.

I can load images OK, as in LOAD "tiger.bmp" or load T$, with T$="tiger.bmp", so it does not seem to be a problem with the SD card.

What am I missing here?

I will be grateful for any suggestions.

Best wishes,

Lew.

panky

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Joined: 02/10/2012
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Posted: 11:16pm 25 Mar 2021

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Lew,

On an E100 running 5.05.03 with an SSD1963 9" LCD, the command

SAVE IMAGE "pic2.bmp" works just fine - takes just a bit under a second to save to the SD card. Can't think of anything for you other than to update to the latest which I believe is 5.05.03 - see Geoff's site.

Doug.
Edited 2021-03-26 09:16 by panky

... almost all of the Maximites, the MicromMites, the MM Extremes, the ArmMites, the PicoMite and loving it!

LewW
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Posted: 11:41pm 25 Mar 2021

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Hi Doug,

Thanks for your reply.

I have updated to 5.05.03. I am happy to know that it works for you, so that tells me that it's not a software bug...

I think the message

Error : SAVE IMAGE not available on this display

must be telling me about a hardware or configuration problem, but I have no idea what that might be. It seems unlikely that I have two faulty displays.

Lew.

Geoffg

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Posted: 01:23am 26 Mar 2021

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See the Micromite Plus manual page 17. You need to specify the pin connected to the RD pin on the LCD panel. On the E100 that is pin 6. So, on the E100 your option command should be:
OPTION LCDPANEL SSD1963_5, LANDSCAPE, 48, 6

Agreed, this is not spelt out in the manual.

Geoff

Geoff Graham - http://geoffg.net

LewW
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Posted: 02:02am 26 Mar 2021

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Hi Geoff,

Thanks very much for that. It works perfectly of course!

I have no complaints about the manual - as usual I did not read it carefully enough. (It was on page 16 in my version of the manual by the way.)

Thank you also for replying so quickly. I have been spinning my wheels for the last couple of days. I can proceed to the next patch of mud now...

Best wishes,

Lew.

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