Trouble with Lcdout

[Tomexx]

Hi,
I have a keypad and an LCD.
My keypad's scanning rutine returns a key (0 to 9).
I'd like to display each digit (as I press the key on the keypad) next to the previous one.

For example:
After pressing digit 3 the LCD will read: 3
Then I press digit 6, the LCD now reads 36
then I press digit 4, the LCD now reads 364 and so on


For some reason I can't do that. I've only been able to display one digit at a time by clearing the display first:

Lcdout $FE, 1, #key

but I really want to show them together as they're being pressed.

Please help

[Melanie]

You've done pretty much OK... just rearrange things a little...

Start:
	LCDOut $FE,1
KeyLoop:
	Gosub GetKey
	LCDOut #key
	Goto KeyLoop

[Tomexx]

Thanks Melanie.

I didn't know that you could skip the "$FE" command when sending data using Lcdout.

BTW, do you have a complete list of LCD commands for use with Lcdout? (I only have the ones from PBP manual and Google couldn't help me).

Tom

[mister_e]

all the special command to use with LCDOUT are in the PBP manual.

$fe,1 clear display
$fe,$c0 jump to 2nd line
etc

so LCDOUT $FE,1," hello "

will clear the display an write hello

LCDOUT $FE,1,"line 1",$FE,$C0,"line 2"

will clear the display and write line 1 on the first line, line 2 on the second line of your LCD.