For some really useful stuff in real time display's look at
http://www.instrument.com in their visual designer software (demo available)
they have some highly customizable display modules panel meters, bar graphs,
scope, chart and x-y plotters.

To bad they are in dll form and no info is available to make them work
outside their  environment

I have made some pretty nifty compact disc tilt testers with these.

Peter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pic microcontroller discussion list
> [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Mark J Anstice
> Sent: Monday, July 26, 1999 7:05 PM
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Software emulation of hardware indicators with ActiveX
>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm after ideas for software emulation of real display hardware e.g. LED,
> LCD, Alpha displays, dials, meters etc.  What would you like to
> see modeled
> in software for your or your company's projects?  This is a great
> opportunity
> for experimenters who would like to display real time information
> in a visual
> form via ActiveX (you can use them in VB, VC++, Java or a web page or in
> anything that supports ActiveX).  All ideas would be greatly
> appreciated, and
> of course testers will get the software for free.
>
> This is a one man operation!  I have purely aquired the skills to do this
> kind of stuff alone, not some dodgy company add.  A website offering these
> ActiceX controls will be available in due course, in the mean
> time postings
> will be made to this list as I know that many of you out there
> require what I
> can produce.
>
> PS Leo, If you are still out there please get in touch, I have the LCD
> emulation that you required, ready for you take a look at (sorry
> it took so
> long!!)
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Mark.