On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:58:26 +0100
David Brown <david.br...@hesbynett.no> wrote:
Thanks to all the people who replied while I was away !
> An alternative idea is to find an ASCII character that you don't need
> otherwise (say, "~"), and use it in your strings. Then do on-the-fly
> conversion when outputing the strings:
>
> char example[] = "foo~bar";
>
> void lcdWriteString(const char* p) {
> while (char c = *p++) {
> if (c == '~') {
> lcdWriteChar(LCD_CUSTOM_CHAR_FOO);
> } else {
> lcdWriteChar(c);
Ah yes, as it happens I already do exactly just that, for two caracters:
the lower case 'g' and 'y' letters. The default ones defined in the LCD
module don't look good, so I redefined them (same bitmap but lowered
down one line/pixel, so it lines up better with the surrounding text).
--
Vince
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