displays

[jcleaver]

bob thanks for the info
however these lcd commands do not work with my pbp
get all type of errors
any ideas?
appreicate your help
example of mine is

lcdout $fe,1 first line
lcdout $fe,$c0 second line

seems to be hanging up on expression line 3+2
has this something to do with setting the display for 4 lines or?

never mind got it was not defineing var works now
going to glue my toes back on (ha ha)
thanks again for your time and effort

[mister_e]

Which error message you get?

        '
        '       LCD setup
        '       =========
        DEFINE LCD_DREG PORTB               ' LCD data port
        DEFINE LCD_DBIT 0                   ' LCD data starting bit
        DEFINE LCD_RSREG PORTB              ' LCD register select port
        DEFINE LCD_RSBIT 4                  ' LCD register select bit
        DEFINE LCD_EREG PORTB               ' LCD enable port
        DEFINE LCD_EBIT 5                   ' LCD enable bit
        DEFINE LCD_BITS 4                   ' LCD data bus size
        DEFINE LCD_LINES 4                  ' Number lines on LCD
        DEFINE LCD_COMMANDUS 2000           ' Command delay time in us
        DEFINE LCD_DATAUS 50                ' Data delay time in us

        Pause   500                         ' LCD startup delay        
        LCDOUT  $FE,  1,"LINE 1",_
                $FE,$C0,"LINE 2",_
                $FE,$94,"LINE 3",_
                $FE,$D4,"LINE 4"
SpinHere:
        goto spinhere

It's written black on white in the manual, or in the MicroCode Studio Help.

[jcleaver]

got this ok thanks for the different spin

another question
when i try to use mpsam for a assembler

get a whole bunch of error messages most error 113 symble no previously defined
complies fine not using mpsam dont know if this is a problem or not

again thanks to all of you that help us out

[mister_e]

More than often the error message is not of any help using MPASM or PM. Paste your whole code here and tell us your PIC #, PBP version , MPASM version.

[jcleaver]

using your example above

pbp 2.46

pic 16f877a

not sure what ver of mpsam

and you are 100% right aout the manual

[mister_e]

Working fine here!

Maybe you have some corrupted file, time to get an MPASM update OR redo a fresh installation of MPASM + PBP.

[jcleaver]

thanks
microchip is down for maintance will try later to get latest ver mpsam

? will reinstalling pbp lose what i hav been working on

jack

[Archangel]

bob thanks for the info
however these lcd commands do not work with my pbp
get all type of errors
any ideas?
appreicate your help
example of mine is

lcdout $fe,1 first line
lcdout $fe,$c0 second line

seems to be hanging up on expression line 3+2
has this something to do with setting the display for 4 lines or?

never mind got it was not defineing var works now
going to glue my toes back on (ha ha)
thanks again for your time and effort

Hi Jack,
if you have trouble dealing with hex use decimal like this:

LCDOUT 254,1    ' Clears Display
LCDOUT 254,128,"Here's how to output"
LCDOUT 254,192,"Strings from code"
LCDOUT 254,148,"space easily !"
LCDOUT 254,212,"Where you put it"

now say you want line three to move over 4 spaces, just add as so:
LCDOUT 254,152,"space easily!" same as LCDOUT 254,148 + 4,"space easily!"
JS