Well that clears some stuff up for me... back to experimenting...

thanks for the help.

so, assuming I don't want to use/pay for LCDC, why am I getting random characters when I try to use 'big clock' and such? I can understand maybe throwing out something weird when using the contrast slider, since its a VFD, and there is no contrast adjustment.

I bought a vfd for a HUD project I've started for my Audi. I'm using uproject, and trying a bit with lcdsmartie. I can get the display to actually display if i enter text in uproject, and click 'send text'. The bar graph demo works too. Thats about it for uproject. Large digits, large digit clock ...