Hello.
I had a Noritake VFD module lying around, and decided to make a clock out of it.
Since it is HD47780 compatible, there were no issues for main display code, as you can see from the attached picture.
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And since this is 2x20 lines display, it is logical that for clock setup menu I'd like to use text, rather than icons or numbers.

This is the text strings I'd like to use in the setup menu.

Code:
Set Year
Set Month
Set Date
Set day of week
Set Hour
Set Minute
Set alarm mode
Off
On all week
On without weekends
Set alarm hours
Set alarm minutes
Set display format
Imperial (12Hr/F)
Metric (24Hr/C)
Display brightness
Auto
25%
50%
75%
100%
Total, 21 lines of text.
In a "classic", old school basic, I would do it via arrays, say like this:
Code:
DIM A$(21) ' declare string array
A$(1)="Set Year"
A$(2)="Set Month"
and so on, and when needed to display that text in the code below
I would just write
LCDOUT $FE, $C0, A$(2) or whatever number needed

With PBP I can't, so I have to introduce 21 separate LCDOUT statements.
So is there a way to avoid this?