From 3af0de91c1a87336bee2988dd1d04a1843505e5b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Kuetbach <ckuetbach@googlemail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 14:59:13 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] changing direction of bit significance seemed to be some kind
 of "buggy".

---
 arduino-code/ICMIMax7219.cpp | 16 +++++++++-------
 arduino-code/ICMIMax7219.h   | 19 ++++++++++---------
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arduino-code/ICMIMax7219.cpp b/arduino-code/ICMIMax7219.cpp
index 81518aa..4eaa30b 100644
--- a/arduino-code/ICMIMax7219.cpp
+++ b/arduino-code/ICMIMax7219.cpp
@@ -174,14 +174,16 @@ void ICMIMax7219::setDigitRaw(uint8_t which, uint8_t value)
 {
     if (which >= 0 && which < this->digitCount)
     {
-        // Apply the bit translation to the value
+      // Apply the bit translation to the value
         uint8_t translatedValue = value;
-        bitWrite(translatedValue, 6, bitRead(value, 0));
-        bitWrite(translatedValue, 5, bitRead(value, 1));
-        bitWrite(translatedValue, 4, bitRead(value, 2));
-        bitWrite(translatedValue, 2, bitRead(value, 4));
-        bitWrite(translatedValue, 1, bitRead(value, 5));
-        bitWrite(translatedValue, 0, bitRead(value, 6));
+        bitWrite(translatedValue, 7, bitRead(value, 0));
+		bitWrite(translatedValue, 6, bitRead(value, 1));
+        bitWrite(translatedValue, 5, bitRead(value, 2));
+        bitWrite(translatedValue, 4, bitRead(value, 3));
+		bitWrite(translatedValue, 3, bitRead(value, 4));
+        bitWrite(translatedValue, 2, bitRead(value, 5));
+        bitWrite(translatedValue, 1, bitRead(value, 6));
+        bitWrite(translatedValue, 0, bitRead(value, 7));
         // register parameter is between 0 and 7, register address is simply +1
         writeRegister(which + 1, translatedValue);
     }
diff --git a/arduino-code/ICMIMax7219.h b/arduino-code/ICMIMax7219.h
index d3a90dd..fea5d14 100644
--- a/arduino-code/ICMIMax7219.h
+++ b/arduino-code/ICMIMax7219.h
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ class ICMIMax7219
      */
     void enable(boolean enable);
 
+
     /**
      * Sets the register content of the designated digit/row to the specified value.
      * Each of the eight bits in value represents a single segment/column of the
@@ -112,18 +113,18 @@ class ICMIMax7219
      *
      *    bit In | bit sent | semgent
      *    -------+----------+---------
-     *       0   |    6     |    A
-     *       1   |    5     |    B
-     *       2   |    4     |    C
-     *       3   |    3     |    D
-     *       4   |    2     |    E
-     *       5   |    1     |    F
-     *       6   |    0     |    G
-     *       7   |    7     |    DP
+     *       0   |    7     |    A
+     *       1   |    6     |    B
+     *       2   |    5     |    C
+     *       3   |    4     |    D
+     *       4   |    3     |    E
+     *       5   |    2     |    F
+     *       6   |    1     |    G
+     *       7   |    0     |    DP
      *
      * Example: the value to display a 5 on the display (segments A, F, G, C, D) would be
      *          B01101101. This is the value passed to this method. The translated value
-     *          sent to the IC would be B01011011.
+     *          sent to the IC would be B10110110.
      *
      * @param which the index of the digit/row to configure. The value must be
      *              between 0 and the value of digitCount (given in the constructor)