Kesara De Costa

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11 years ago.

FRDM25Z AnalogIn to LCD display problem

I want to read data from AD pin PTB0 and write the data to LCD ( I am using Andrew Lindsay's N3310LCD -http://mbed.org/search/?type=&q=Nokia+3310)

my code is lcd.writeString( 0, 1, ("%f", Dat.read()), NORMAL); I get the following error

error is "argument of type "float" is incompatible with parameter of type "char *"" in file "/main.cpp", Line: 301, Col: 27

Please help me to get over this problem.

2 Answers

Erik -
11 years ago.

Apparently they didnt inherit from Stream when making that class, so you cant use printf. writeString requires a string (char array) with the data it needs to write, that isnt done with your method. You can have a look at http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstdio/sprintf/

What should work is something like: (untested)

char buffer [20];  //Should be long enough buffer. 
sprintf (buffer, "%f", Dat.read());

lcd.writeString( 0, 1, buffer, NORMAL);

Accepted Answer
Kesara De Costa
poster
11 years ago.

Hi Erik

It works

Thanks