How exactly LCDOUT statement works?

[CuriousOne]

Any ideas?
This is very annoying and trashes whole idea of using LCDOUT statement...

[HenrikOlsson]

At the very beginning of this thread we went over how LCDOUT works, how it determines if what you give it should be sent as data or as commands, ie the $FE prefix. Now, a couple of weeks later you claim to have found this by accident and all of a sudden the LCDOUT command is at fault and doesn't work.

LCDOUT works perfectly fine for its intended purposes. You're trying to use it for something it was not designed for and because that doesn't work the way you'd like the command is flawed, is that correct?

Apart from editing the custom characters to not include $FE and/or writing your own routines to drive the display I don't have any ideas.

[CuriousOne]

Well, I have shifted letters to right edge, instead of left, and for text it indeed works, but when there is need to display the graphics...
I'm using LCDOUT due it's simplicity and low memory use.
The code below occupies less than 1k of memory (font data stored in eeprom), and allows you to have 4 lines X 18 characters text display with all custom letters on graphical display.

C=0 '0=1st line, 8=2nd line, 16=3rd line and 24=4th line 
arraywrite topline, ["place text here   "]
GOSUB GCODER
stop




GCODER:
FOR X=0 TO 17 step 2	'READ ARRAY INTO VARIABLE, ARRAY MEMBER CHAR=EEPROM OFFSET	
Y=(topline[x]-65)*8
Z=(topline[x+1]-65)*8 'READ  INTO VARIABLE AS TWINS
FOR I=0 TO 7	'HELPER LOOP FOR CHARACTER READING
READ Y+I,A 'READ EEPROM BYTES INTO VAR
READ Z+I,B
LCDOUT $FE,$80+i+c 'UPDATE Y POSITION
LCDOUT $FE,$80+x/2 'UPDATE X POSITION
if topline[x]=32 then a=0
if topline[x+1]=32 then b=0 'blanker
LCDOUT a
LCDOUT b 'WRITE TO SCREEN
'pause 10
NEXT I
NEXT X
return