Best way to store text in a pic

Hello fellow PBP'ers, I'm currently working on a project where I need to display many text lines in a LCD.

The text outputs depend on the situation, say:

if the count reaches 100 I'll display: "Good Morning, blah blah blah"

then when the count reaches 150, it'll display: "good afternoon, blah blah"

and so on..
I want my program to be able to give many text strings..

Suppose I'm using a pic 16f887,what is the best way to save space or to do this?

I was thinking about doing many if...then's but that will probably eat my pic's memory in no time.
I'll appreciate any piece of advice, thanks!

WoZ

Hi

Maybe you can use an external EE-prom for your text strings. 24LC512 using I2C is a very cheap and simple way. Then you can use the PIC for program code and the EE-prom for text messages. This way will also allow you to change the text without having to recompile every time.



/me

This is how I do it

Code:

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prn_SetDate:      PokeCode "Date changed",0
prn_SetTime:      PokeCode "Time changed",0
prn_LogPrinted:    PokeCode "Log printed",0
prn_SafeClosedByMaster: PokeCode  "Key interlock cleared by master",0

ASM
GetAddress macro Label, Wout      ; Returns the Address of a Label as a Word
    CHK?RP Wout
    movlw low Label
    movwf Wout
    movlw High Label
    movwf Wout + 1
    endm
ENDASM
Address        var    word

'----snip------
    ' This is how to use it
    ' Prt_puts uses the Variable Address to print the contents pointed at by it
    @ GetAddress _prn_SetDate, _Address ;macro from this site
    gosub Prt_puts                                ; put the string to printer
'----snip------

' Print an ASCIIZ string
' Input - Address points to the string
Prt_puts:
  repeat
    peekcode Address, gr[0]                  ' gr[0] is a byte sized user register
    if gr[0] then
      gosub Prt_putc                            ' print 1 character
      Address = Address+1
    endif
  until gr[0]=0                                    ' print till end of string '0'
  return

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Hope this helps

Variant of the above

STRINGS - How to store and retrieve strings in Code Space
http://www.pbpgroup.com/modules/wfse...p?articleid=10

which is also explain/discussed + few variant & mods

Embedded Strings in your Code Space
http://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/show...ight=codespace