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Originally Posted by Tanga
I'm a total noob. What do these things do and can I play with them on my K3?
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What they REALLY do is show you how to write programs to do cool things on kindles.
The individual demos themselves just draw pixels on the eink display, so
they are safe to run. They draw cool things with animated effects. Just download the attachment and run the executable (the file without the ".c" on the end of the filename) on your kindles. And watch what they do. Usually they are named in a way that hints at effect they will show you. Some of them have a screenshot that shows a sample of what you see at some time during the demo.
Be sure to click the "Show" buttons in these posts to see what is hidden behind them.
If you
read the comments in the first few lines of source code for each demo program, they say that they work on ALL eink kindles. Many of them also say that in their posting. You should read the posts first, then scan the code for any comments that may give a clue, then run the program on your kindle (or just skip the reading and run the program to enjoy the unfolding surprise).
Each demo has custom code that is contained in a function called from main(). The demo function calls functions provided by my library code that does the "heavy lifting" to give you simple access to all eink kindles.
The organizing of my function library is evolving. I call the whole package of dithered animation support "Dithermation". The library of all of geekmaster's function is called "gmlib" and that includes a larger code base for everything, not just eink support.
What else can I say?
