What exactly is an "LCD massage"? ;-)

Sean


On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Andre Abelian <andre@ditechnology.com> wr=
ote:
> Hi to all,
>
> I am working on 5 buttons and 2x16 LCD that has lots of
> Information to display wait a few seconds etc. then questions to ask
> And lots of up and downs. The way I started to write the code
> I ended up too messy and now I am changing it to something like this
> But I am not sure if this is the best way of doing it. Friend of mine
> Said that what I did it similar to state machine.
> I have a variable name STATUS_FLAG and each buttons press or condition
> I update the STATUS_FLAG for example
>
>
> STATUS_FLAG =3D 6 PrePRG# 1
> STATUS_FLAG =3D 7 PrePRG# 2 =A0 =A0 etc.
>
>
> =A0I have 20 while loops so far
>
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0while (STATUS_FLAG =3D=3D 2) =A0 // run custom=
 program
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0{
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 // =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Run program here
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 // =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0If button pressed update =A0STATUS_=
FLAG
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 if (!input(RIGHT))
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0{
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0STATUS_FLAG =
=3D 3; =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0// select pre
> programmed
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0}
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0if (!input(ENT))
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 {
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0STATUS_FLAG =
=3D 5; =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0// select Custom
> program
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0lcd_putc("\f")=
; =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 // clear screen
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 }
> =A0After pressing buttons while loop will exit and other while loop will
> start to run
> =A0My question is there any better way of doing it? Any suggestions ?
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Andre
>
>
>
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