Basic LCD

[rjstephens]

hi,

I was just wondering, has anyone ever written any code to make crystalfontz LCDs work with qBasic?

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[The SeNTiNeL #1]

Try http://lcdriver.pointofnoreturn.org

The site will explain pretty much everything you need to do and provide the necessary Drivers and OLE Controls for use with VB and other programming languages.

Hope this helps.

 

[ElementXSoftware]

Qbasic has support for input and output to the parallel port. All you would have to do is port a module over from visual basic, or some other language, into qbasic that will output to the lcd. I think that this would work the same way for serial lcd's but I'm not sure.

 

[rjstephens]

porting a vb module over would be very difficult because qb's method for controlling the serial port is very different. However, I have been forced to look elsewhere because I can't order a crystalfontz LCD from Australia.

 

[ClassicSat]

I can supply you basic Q-Basic code for 4 bit mode.
8 bit mode will be easier. That is for a paralell LCD.

 

[rjstephens]

is it for HD47780 or whatever that paralell standard is or is it for crystalfontz