Component: LCD (Adafruit, 16x2) (Alphanumeric)
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Version | 1.8 |
Category | Alphanumeric |
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LCD (Adafruit, 16x2) component
Adafruit OLED LCD display capable of displaying 2 lines of 16 characters.
Component Source Code
Please click here to download the component source project: FC_Comp_Source_LCD_Adafruit_OLED.fcfx
Please click here to view the component source code (Beta): FC_Comp_Source_LCD_Adafruit_OLED.fcfx
Detailed description
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Examples
Connections
For the LCDs to work with the Flowcode LCD component they need to be connected up in 4-bit data mode.
The 4 data signals actually go to the upper data nibble on the LCD as shown below.
A simple example that shows how to use some common functions.
Macro reference
Clear | |
Clears the entire contents of the display. | |
- VOID | Return |
PrintString | |
Breaks down a string of text and sends it to the LCD via the private RawSend(byte, mask) macro | |
- STRING | Text |
- VOID | Return |
PrintAscii | |
Takes the ascii value for a character and prints the character | |
- BYTE | character |
Holds an ascii value. | |
- VOID | Return |
PrintNumber | |
Based on v5 macro, will allow you to print a number. This is limited to a signed-INT, -32768 to 32767 | |
- INT | Number |
- VOID | Return |
ClearLine | |
Clears a single line on the display before moving the cursor back to the start of the line to allow new data to be displayed. | |
- BYTE | Line |
- VOID | Return |
Cursor | |
Moves the cursor on the LCD Display | |
- BYTE | x |
- BYTE | y |
- VOID | Return |
ScrollDisplay | |
Scrolls the display left or right by a number of given positions. | |
- BYTE | Position |
Holds the number of positions to shift the display | |
- BYTE | direction |
0 = left, 1 = right | |
- VOID | Return |
Start | |
Startup routine required by the hardware device. Automatically clears the display when complete. | |
- VOID | Return |