Tutorial #3

2-17-99

Displaying Text on the Home Screen

You actually will use the graph screen more than the home screen but I figured you should know this too. Study the following code, I will give an explaination after it.

...Code that start off in every ASM program...

	call _clrLCDFull	;Clears the screen of course

	ld hl,0005	;Loads 5 into hl

	ld (CURROW),hl	;Loads the 5 from hl into CURROW the home screen ploting thing

	ld hl,hometext	;Loads the text variable into hl

	call _puts	;Puts the text on screen

	ret	;Returns to what it was doing

hometext:	;The variable

	.db "It Worked!",0	;Text we used

.end	;Ends the program

END	;Needed for TASM

Ok the following commands you don't know are the "CURROW" and the _puts All the CURROW is, is for the HomeScreen instead of Graph Screen and _puts is for putting stuff on the homescreen instead of the GraphScreen.

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