LCD Port

ACagliano · Super-Expert Joined: 08 Feb 2010 Posts: 925

Quick Question... for the tutorial I'm writing.

Which port number is the one that you use to write to the LCD? According to wikiti, it looks like either 10 or 11? What is the general procedure?
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calcdude84se · Power User Joined: 14 Jun 2010 Posts: 408

WikiTI ought to have the documentation you need. The ports are indeed $10 and $11. $10 is for commands and $11 is for data. An important point is that the LCD needs a delay before writing to either port. Again, WikiTI should have most of this.
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KermMartian · Posted: 14 Mar 2012 05:08:55 pm Post subject:

As calcdude says, WikiTI is entirely comprehensive in terms of what you need to do to write to the LCD. I recommend you just give people instructions on using iFastCopy in a tutorial, though...
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ACagliano · Super-Expert Joined: 08 Feb 2010 Posts: 925

Wikiti was pretty good. In the end, I was just a bit unclear as to the difference between 10 and 11. And yes, Kerm I will. My goal, in this tutorial, is to start with the complex stuff, like direct input/output, and then explain how you can use premade routines in the stead of those routines.
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KermMartian · Posted: 14 Mar 2012 05:16:48 pm Post subject:

Kaslai · Member Joined: 16 Nov 2011 Posts: 172 Location: ???, WA

As strange as it sounds, TI83+ Assembly in 28 Days has a good segment on the display driver.
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ACagliano · Super-Expert Joined: 08 Feb 2010 Posts: 925

Ok...I just need a bit more help

Kaslai · Member Joined: 16 Nov 2011 Posts: 172 Location: ???, WA

Auto increment and auto decrement are settings for the driver that will automatically change the column and row after each write, so that you don't have to adjust the pointer after every write.

Bit 6, if I recall correctly, sets each column to 6 bits wide rather than 8. The point of this is for fonts; notice how the home screen font is 6 pixels wide? This setting gets rid of the math needed if you want to display an axis aligned 6px wide font.
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calcdude84se · Power User Joined: 14 Jun 2010 Posts: 408

The position that writing/reading port $11 concerns is automatically changed after each access. Auto-increment sets this in the positive direction (either down or right), and auto-decrement in the negative (left or up). Both wrap around the edges. 6-bit mode means port $11 reads/writes 6 bits at a time (the upper two bits don't matter when writing and are 0 when reading), and 8-bit means, well, a whole byte at a time. Setting 6- or 8-bit mode affects column numbers too. Each column in 6-bit mode is 6 pixels wide, so there are more of them.
Edit: ninja'd by Kaslai.
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ACagliano · Super-Expert Joined: 08 Feb 2010 Posts: 925

And, if I'm correct, based on the way most text and sprite rending OS commands work...is the LCD set to auto increment by default? Or at least, is that standard.
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calcdude84se · Power User Joined: 14 Jun 2010 Posts: 408

The OS tends to use the LCD in X auto-increment mode, which (yes, I know I said X--X and Y are named backwards compared to the usual naming) moves the internal pointer a row down every time. That mode is the simplest and is faster than Y auto-increment for updating the entire LCD, as there are fewer columns than rows.
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