lcd problems

[Nitro]

thanks for all the help, i should be able to get it going.

[Bonxy]

Hi Nitro

This is the lcd defines i always use, just alter it to what your configuration is.

DEFINE LCD_DREG PORTD
DEFINE LCD_DBIT 4
DEFINE LCD_RSREG PORTE
DEFINE LCD_RSBIT 0
DEFINE LCD_EREG PORTE
DEFINE LCD_EBIT 1

DEFINE OSC 4

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Brian

[Nitro]

i'll see, thanks for the help.
i thought this was supposed to be easier than assembler!?

[BobK]

Hi Nitro,

It is easy! What's the problem now. Bonxy gave you a link to his assembly language LCD setup and now he has shown you how it's done in PBP. Are you still having problems just getting a PIC to work? Have you tried just getting an LED to blink for starters to make sure your PIC is working correctly?

Setting up a PIC is easy when you know how. I have been scanning the posts on this forum for over a year and have learned alot for the guru's like Melanie, Mister E, Dave Taylor, and Micro. (To any of the other gurus' on this forum, if I forgot to list your name I'm sorry) Searching the files on this group will give you a lot of code samples and how to resolve your issues.

Have you built anything with a PIC before or are you just getting started? These things are almost "learn one youe learn them all" type devices however, each one may have a few quirks more than the previous one. Some are drop ins with more memory and features.

I did a few small projects in the past with the Basic Stamp then moved on to a really large project with 42 PICS. I'm nowhere a pro at this but I have used assembler over 15 years ago and I found that using the PIC Basic and PIC Basic Pro to be alot easier.

Were here to help you because as Red Green would say "were all in this together".

BobK

[Nitro]

it seems i had more pressing problems: i recently reformated my pc so i had to reconfigure my programmer for the pics to respond, and furthermore three of my lcd's horizontal picsal rows were blank, like a line through the word.
on your othe rquestion, i have condtucted and programed my own robot with 500 assembler opcodes that can follow a black and white line and avoid things in one program with lcd support, thats why i thought picbasic should be simple.