Thanks for the help. I checked the settings after the c++ app runs. It is set at cs8.
The MO-perl is nice. It almost works for me. For some reason, the display is still not being cleared if I use the text_example as is. The display does not clear, and I get an X at pos (1,1) and 'Hi there!' is ...

I'm having trouble sending the command codes to my display with perl. Everything seemed to be working fine until I re-did my system (wipe and re-install).
I found a bunch of examples and now they are not working.

here it an example...

open(LCD,">/dev/lcd")||die "ERROR: can not write to /dev/lcd\n ...

Thanks Henry. All is well now.

Hey all. Need a little guidance please. I need a code example to read the keypad from the BVK202A using VB6. I have no problems sending to it (displaying text, controlling GPOs, etc.) but my brain seems to have turned into mush (too much work, not enough sleep/food), you know how it is. Thanks

Yes I can control the backlight, contrast, GPO's (all I've tried is 1, but it is fine), wrap, scroll, send text, and read keypresses from display (although they are very delayed - 2 to 5 seconds before a response).

I think I got everything set back to default, and I am now using COM2 instead of ...

Thanks, I was pretty much that far, but now I have a more accurate description of my problem.

1. Bar graphs do not work
Upon experimenting and using the AlphaDemo prog. I can now say for sure that it is not working properly. There are strange patterns in the char map. I've defined my own maps and ...

Hey. I'm new to the LCD thing, so please be gentle...

I somehow managed to mess up the diplay like a few others in the forum (ie. garbled power on message, contrast way off) due to changing to an unsupported baud rate (so it seems).

I've read all the other posts and followed the recommended fixes ...