Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
Enabling the LCD display in the IDE
As with the last two shields, the first step is to add library support for the device. Finding a
functional set of libraries for this particular shield is a bit difficult, as this particular shield
has been available for some time. Some versions of the libraries for this shield are for older
versions of the IDE.
Note
The correct libraries for Version 1.05 of the Arduino IDE are available at
ht-
To work with this device and the IDE, perform the following steps:
1. Go to the previously mentioned page and navigate to the
Sample Code
section.
Right below this is a library selection that, if you select it, will download the lib-
rary.
2. Now, open the Arduino IDE and select
Sketch
. Click on
Import Library…
and
then click on the
LCD4884 V1.2.zip
file. This will import this library into the IDE.
3. Now you can use one of the example programs in your Arduino. To bring up the
simplest of these example programs, navigate to
File
|
Examples
|
LCD4884
|
int_to_String_display
, as shown in the following screenshot:
4. This is the simplest set of code to drive the display, and it shows how to display
both a string and a number, as shown in the following screenshot:
