[sdiy] dave smith *instruments*

[Antti Huovilainen]

On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Tom Wiltshire wrote:

> So if someone turns the rotary encoder really quickly, you can't update 
> the LCD before the encoder has moved again. This leaves you having to 
> choose between letting the LCD update finish before you check the rotary 
> encoder again (e.g. ignore the encoder) or check the encoder but don't 
> always bother to update the LCD if it's going too fast (e.g. ignore the 
> LCD).

The correct way is to use a fastish (~500 Hz) timer interrupt to read the 
encoders and update the internal counters. Then the actual processing & 
display code can deal with them at whatever rate is appropriate. This way 
the worst that can happen is that some values are skipped over.

Antti

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