Read the specs.. all the info you need to drive the LCD's is there.

If you get one line full of blocks, one blank, one full, and one blank: that is correct. Your LCD is waiting to be initialized.

The LCD needs to be initialized by the software (smartie, LCDCenter, LCDInf etc.)

Make sure your lpt port is set to ECP, and adress $378, and you should have no problems ...

On 2002-01-30 13:26, Henry wrote:
LCDSmartie does some of this stuff...

It does.. but with the help of QStat.

I have a self written object for Delphi, that drives an HD44780 comp. LCD. I'm currenty cleaning code so I have different classes for different LCD's.

Base class: TLCD with sub-class THD44780LCD. This will be open-source as soon as I cleaned the code up a bit, and 4x40 support is ok (its a bit ...

Ah.. that's correct.. you are using 0.2 beta, and the clock is something that I already put in the menu. I am doing a complete rewrite now, and I didn't put in the clock yet. Watch out while using 0.2 beta though! After running for a while, it will probably crash, due to anot so good inplementation ...

One more app for the list: LCDInf. (www.bosselaar.net/lcd)

Written by me, has just a few features (cpu and memory stats), very low CPU usage ( <3% on a P166!!), and only for parallel LCD's (hd44780).

I'm currently adding features, en doing a rewrite to support multiple drivers, so I can add ...