Questions about Johnny 5 and ledwhiz

[JoeyJoeJo]

First up is LEDWhiz.  I've seen the pictures of the device, but what all can it do exactly?  I've never really be able to find anything that said.

Second, is it possible to display a Johnny 5 layout on a secondary screen while I'm playing a game?  For example, I was thinking of putting a PSOne LCD screen on my cabinet someplace.  While I'm playing a game, it would be nice to see the controls on that LCD.  Also, I was wondering about using a text only LCD.  I've got one of these from thinkgeek. http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/avcards/7e3e/
Would it be possible using Johnny 5 to display something like

Button 1: Punch
Button 2: Kick
Button 3: Block

on a text LCD? I'm not sure exactly how Johnny 5 works, so I have no idea if this is possible.  Anyway, I just wanted to say a big thanks to HowardC for all the work he's done on this software.

JoeyJoeJo

[Space Fractal]

Ledwiz can been found at http://www.groovygamegear.com. I hope Howard answear the next question.

[Howard_Casto]

The dual display thing technically already works, although I'm working on a helper app just for that. 

I suppose I could output support for text lcd displays but I don't see much point in it.  Unless you buy one so expensive that you might as well get a real lcd display, most text displays have three lines or less.  This means you could only show three labels at a time.  Even pacman has 4 labels (up,down,left,right).  Even if you just did the button output thing, that would only be useful for games with 3 buttons or less.  It could be argued that those games have such simple controls you don't really need the labels anyway. 


Heh I hope you didn't pay 80 bucks for that module cause it's worth about 5.. 15 if you absolutely need usb. 

[JoeyJoeJo]

I had a gift certificate for thinkgeek, so it didn't cost me that much.  I didn't figure it was worth all that.  Anyway, getting the text lcd to work sounds hard, so I'll probably do something with a PSOne LCD.  Thanks for all the cool software, and keep up the good work!