LCD BARgraphs

[Darrel Taylor]

I make my own !

Perfect!

That's what we do here. Offer examples and assistance, so that others can write thier own programs. But the real question is, What will you do with your program when you're finished.

Will you look at it and say, Hey that's pretty good, I'm not giving it out to anyone for free. Or, will you post it here for others to look at and say it's not good enough.

I guess time will tell.
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[CocaColaKid]

Darrel,

I just modified you include file by replacing the word "LCDOut" with "debug" and it almost appears to work. The problem though is that I'm using a 4x20 LCD and it appears the program thinks there is a 16 character LCD pluggeding in because it starts line 2 at postion 17 and starts line 4 at position 17 on line 2. Any thoughts one this?

[Darrel Taylor]

I knew that was going to come back and bite me in the assparagus.

With 4x20 displays, line 3 and 4 start at $94 and $D4. I was going to add an option that made the change for you, but forgot about it.

In the ShowBAR: routine, you can change this line ...
<pre><b> LOOKUP BAR_row,[$80,$80,$C0,$90,$D0],BARtemp</b></pre>to this ...
<pre><b> LOOKUP BAR_row,[$80,$80,$C0,$94,$D4],BARtemp</b></pre>and it should work better. Sorry!
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[Darrel Taylor]

Or, better yet ... there's this

@ ifdef LCD4X20    
    LOOKUP BAR_row,[$80,$80,$C0,$94,$D4],BARtemp
@ else
    LOOKUP BAR_row,[$80,$80,$C0,$90,$D0],BARtemp
@ endif

Then in your main program you can just do this when using a 4x20 LCD

DEFINE  LCD4X20  1

I've also made the change to the original attachment above.

Thanks for pointing it out CocaColaKid!
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[CocaColaKid]

Glad I could be of service since you've done such a nice job with the code the least I could do was help debug it

[crematory]

Hi Darrel

Can you please make Vertical_LCDBar.INC like that Horizontal_LCDBar.INC.


Thanks in advance

[Darrel Taylor]

Like Alain said way up there.

Due to the spaces between the characters landing on an Odd number, vertical bargraphs on LCD displays don't work very well.

Bummer!
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