displaying nos. on LCD

Archiver

I have the StampWorks kit with the BS2. I am having trouble sending
numbers to the LCD. I keep getting this symbol ||. I have figured out
a way to do it, but I have a feeling it's a boneheaded way. Say I want
to display the number 823. I send the number 8, contained within a
variable, through a loop that compares it to values 0 to 9, when it
gets a match, it sends the msg_pntr to the corresponding EEPROM address.

For example.

Msg08 DATA "8", 0


Is there a better way to do it? I have had no success at the Parallax
website.

Archiver

You are doing things the hard way. Remember that you need to send ASCII
characters to the LCD -- not their decimal value. Luckily, you can do this
by adding the decimal value to "0" (decimal 48). Here's a general-purpose
subroutine that will print a number on your LCD.

Print_Number:
LOOKDOWN myNumber, <=[noparse][[/noparse]9, 99, 999, 9999, 65535], highDig
FOR idx = highDig to 0
char = myNumber DIG idx + "0"
GOSUB LCD_Write
NEXT
RETURN

I will leave it to you to crack open the manual (in the back of your
StampWorks book) to review anything in my snippet of code that doesn't make
sense.

-- Jon Williams
-- Parallax
-- Author of "StampWorks"


In a message dated 3/27/2003 12:47:46 PM Central Standard Time,
jbechtel@e... writes:

> I have the StampWorks kit with the BS2. I am having trouble sending
> numbers to the LCD. I keep getting this symbol ||. I have figured out
> a way to do it, but I have a feeling it's a boneheaded way. Say I want
> to display the number 823. I send the number 8, contained within a
> variable, through a loop that compares it to values 0 to 9, when it
> gets a match, it sends the msg_pntr to the corresponding EEPROM address.
>
> For example.
>
> Msg08 DATA "8", 0



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