Dummy needs LCD tutorial,

[Melanie]

> the (MeLabs) forum and support seems to be much better

Now why do you say that? Just curiosity (though it did bring a smile when I read that). At a glance, they have ten-times the amount of activity that this forum has for roughly the same number of members...

[TK5EP]

Well, i got an answer quickly on this one, and found more infos in the archives for my level than on the other one.
I saw more posts here since one week i'm interested in PICs.

Maybe a bad guess ? But keep smiling !

> the (MeLabs) forum and support seems to be much better

Now why do you say that? Just curiosity (though it did bring a smile when I read that). At a glance, they have ten-times the amount of activity that this forum has for roughly the same number of members...

[Luciano]

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Custom Characters tutorial:
http://www.parallax.com/dl/docs/cols...1/col/nv32.pdf

LCD Character Generator: (Freeware)
http://www.parallax.com/dl/sw/lcdcc.zip

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Writing custom characters to LCD display:
http://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=242


Luciano

[TK5EP]

Ciao Luciano,

Grazie mille !

That was exactly what i was looking for !
This forum seems to be the right place for me... ;-)

Thanks a million to all of you for your kindness.

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Custom Characters tutorial:
http://www.parallax.com/dl/docs/cols...1/col/nv32.pdf

LCD Character Generator: (Freeware)
http://www.parallax.com/dl/sw/lcdcc.zip

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Writing custom characters to LCD display:
http://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=242


Luciano

[Dick Ivers]

Hi Darrell,

I love the bar graph display. Can it be set up to do the following:

1. A text line showing the current temperature in deg C with 0.1 deg resolution. (Temperature data from a thermistor via a PIC a/d data channel.)

2. Several bar graph lines showing (a.) the current temp. and (b.) the temp. as recorded in the preceeding 30 second intervals; with as many bars as is practical.

3. As a new data bar is entered the oldest bar drops off.

Possible?

[Darrel Taylor]

Hi Darrell,

I love the bar graph display. Can it be set up to do the following:

1. A text line showing the current temperature in deg C with 0.1 deg resolution. (Temperature data from a thermistor via a PIC a/d data channel.)

2. Several bar graph lines showing (a.) the current temp. and (b.) the temp. as recorded in the preceeding 30 second intervals; with as many bars as is practical.

3. As a new data bar is entered the oldest bar drops off.

Possible?

Absolutely Possible!

You can have as many bars as you can fit on the screen. They can come and go anytime you please.

Just remember that when you're finished with 1 particular BAR, call the BARgraph macro 1 more time with a 0 value, to clear the area that it used. It's more efficient than clearing the screen, and re-drawing everthing else. Looks better without the flicker too .
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Glad you like it! Thanks!

[TK5EP]

Hi Darrell,

I too like your include and already posted a question about it, but did not get any answer.

I would like to use it with another Picbasic.

In one line you have : Remainder = R2

What is this R2 ?

Do you know if your file has been ported to other versions of Picbasic ?

Thanks,

Absolutely Possible!

You can have as many bars as you can fit on the screen. They can come and go anytime you please.

Just remember that when you're finished with 1 particular BAR, call the BARgraph macro 1 more time with a 0 value, to clear the area that it used. It's more efficient than clearing the screen, and re-drawing everthing else. Looks better without the flicker too .
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Glad you like it! Thanks!

[NavMicroSystems]

> the (MeLabs) forum and support seems to be much better

Now why do you say that? Just curiosity (though it did bring a smile when I read that). At a glance, they have ten-times the amount of activity that this forum has for roughly the same number of members...

Me as well had a smile on my face...


I don't want to start yet another "heated debate",
but to be fair,
I'm sure if Patrick had provided a bit more of information about his Project on "the other" Forum
he would have got some better response.

[mister_e]

you can't imagine MY smile... period!

[TK5EP]

Sorry if i bothered someone, it was not my intention... :-(
My apologies if i did !
Some of you are on both forums and answered me on both.

Anyway, i will survey both forums and post on both. ANY help is welcome.

Patrick,

Me as well had a smile on my face...
I don't want to start yet another "heated debate",
but to be fair,
I'm sure if Patrick had provided a bit more of information about his Project on "the other" Forum
he would have got some better response.

[mister_e]

Sorry if i bothered someone, it was not my intention... :-(

Oh no you didn't. You just raise an interesting fact wich make some people here laugh and some other cry. No harm at all.

You see, there are reasons why you should be using the MeLabs compiler... Darrel's magic code is one of them...

only one of them

[Darrel Taylor]

already posted a question about it, but did not get any answer

Sorry about that! &nbsp; I was purposely ignoring it.

Some other guy came in here and said that "The Other compiler" did everything that PicBasic Pro didn't. &nbsp; So, I didn't think you needed it.

"I picked a bad day to stop sniffing glue" - Airplane.

But seriously folks, &nbsp;R2 is a PicBasic Pro system variable that holds the modulas remainder after a 31x15 divide with the DIV32 command. &nbsp;I don't use "The Other compiler", so I really don't know how you would do that.
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[TK5EP]

Hi again !

I found a small example of a bargraph that i can make working with the demo version. I can't include Darrel's include...

It works OK, and i could modifiy it to my needs, i understood almost all the code except the method used to store in the CGRAM :
Lcdout $FE,64,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 ' blank
Lcdout $0,$10,$10,$10,$10,$10,$10,$0 ' |
Lcdout $0,$14,$14,$14,$14,$14,$14,$0 ' ||
Lcdout $0,$15,$15,$15,$15,$15,$15,$0 ' |||

Following the different other codes i've found, i would have done it this way :
lcdout $FE,$40,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00,$00
lcdout $FE,$48,$10,$10,$10,$10,$10,$10,$10,$00
lcdout $FE,$50,$14,$14,$14,$14,$14,$14,$14,$00
lcdout $FE,$58,$15,$15,$15,$15,$15,$15,$15,$00

or for last line lcdout $FE,$58,REP $15\7,$00

How is the 1st method working ??

BTW what does LCDOUT $FE,$CE make ?

also LCDOUT $FE,$80+1 would move the cursor to first line second character ?

FYI, i changed from the "other" compiler to MELabs one.... ;-)

Greetings,

[Darrel Taylor]

CGRAM is just a 64 byte contiguous block of RAM. Once you set the address to write to, you can just continue sending bytes untill your done, or you reach the end of RAM. So, your first group of LCDOUT's will set 4 custom chars, starting at location 0.

The second group accomplishes the same thing, but also sends the address for the character each time. As long as your not going to be changing things, the first group uses less code and execution time, but the second group is easier to cut&paste into other programs, since the address goes with it. &nbsp; "6 of 1, half dozen of the other".

$FE,$CE will move the cursor to the 15th character on the second line.

and, correct on the $FE,$80+1
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