Hi Jinx:

Have just installed the code from TB028 for Day of Week and now need 
what should be a simple way to get from day or month number to 3 ASCII 
characters.  I also found an old Y2K web page with the leap year 
alogrithim and some test dates.

Hi Colin:
For me assembly language is much easier than C.

Hi William:
Just the simple day number to 3 character ASCII string table.  I'm doing 
the math eleswhere.  I can do it now but in a way that seems like a 
kludge (i.e. using seperate subroutines for each string).  There should 
be a simple way to get the day and month ASCII strings to the LCD given 
the day and month numbers.  Like call PutDay with W as the Day Of Week, 
or call PutMonth with W as Month Of Year.

Hi again Jinx:
In LCD App Note 587 there are errors both in the LCD initialization and 
in reading data from the LCD.  These same errors also show up in the 
Clock App Note 582.  My code is riddled with delays and it's not clear 
which ones need to be there and which are extra.  It would be nice to 
have clean code where only the delays that are needed are there and to 
minimize the time spent in delays to speed things up.  Some of the 
errors are not delay related but are logic errors.

The LCD clock app note 582 was written by someone who was thinking LED 
clock.  So there are blinking routines in the time set part of the code, 
but LCDs have a hardware blink capability which is a much cleaner way to 
blink a digit.  Also since you can read back whatever is being displayed 
on the LCD navigation is just a matter of reading back the current 
cursor position and then reading back the current data and taking 
approiate action. (Hence my earlier question about navigation switches.  
It looks like 3 to 5 tactile buttons will be the low cost answer.)

Most of the code on the PIC list LCD page works in the listen only mode, 
but Pemberton's code looks like it does have the ability to read back 
data in the 4 and 8 bit modes.  I'll look into this.

Hi Bob:
Instead of using Andy's 99 year algorithim I'm using TB028.

Have Fun,

Brooke Clarke

-- 
w/Java http://www.PRC68.com
w/o Java http://www.pacificsites.com/~brooke/PRC68COM.shtml
http://www.precisionclock.com


-- 
http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive
View/change your membership options at
http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist