Unix-style Fortune teller text display on LCD

Dependencies:   4DGL-uLCD-SE SDFileSystem mbed

Revision:
0:672a66c015ca
Child:
1:4d5e6b8edd00
diff -r 000000000000 -r 672a66c015ca main.cpp
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+++ b/main.cpp	Mon Mar 09 02:09:20 2015 +0000
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+#include "mbed.h"
+#include "SDFileSystem.h"
+#include "uLCD_4DGL.h"
+
+SDFileSystem sd(p11, p12, p13, p14, "sd"); //sd card
+DigitalIn pb(p21); //pushbutton
+uLCD_4DGL uLCD(p9,p10,p8); // serial tx, serial rx, reset pin;
+
+int main() {
+    char buffer[300]; //buffer to store the quotation
+    float rando=0; //variable responsible to receive the random value
+    uLCD.cls(); //clear the screen
+    printf("Hello\n"); //check the conection with the computer
+
+    mkdir("/sd/mydir", 0777); //create a folder calle mydir
+    //Create the file with the quotations
+    FILE *fp = fopen("/sd/mydir/sdtest.txt", "w");
+    if(fp == NULL) {
+        error("Could not open file for write\n");
+    }
+    fprintf(fp, "It is much harder to find a job than to keep one.\nNo act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.   -- Aesop\nDistance doesn't make you any smaller, but it does make you part of a larger picture.\nGod instructs the heart, not by ideas, but by pains and contradictions.   -- De Caussade\nYou can always tell the people that are forging the new frontier. They're the ones with arrows sticking out of their backs.\nMan belongs wherever he wants to go.   -- Wernher von Braun\nLife is too important to take seriously   -- Corky Siegel\nShe never liked zippers, she said, until she opened one in bed.\nSales tax applies.\nGod created a few perfect heads.  The rest he covered with hair.\n");
+    fclose(fp);
+     
+    printf("Aperte o botao\n");//lets you know when the file is created
+    while (true){
+        if (pb == 1){
+            //open the file to be read
+            FILE *ft = fopen("/sd/mydir/sdtest.txt", "r+");
+            if(ft == NULL) {
+                error("Could not open file for write\n");
+            }
+            
+            rando = rand()%10+1;//random value
+            for(int i=0; i<rando; i++){ //copy to buffer the quotation of the random value
+                fgets(buffer, 300, ft);
+            }
+            uLCD.cls();
+            uLCD.printf("%s\n", buffer); //prints in the scrren the string
+            printf("%s\n", buffer);
+            fclose(ft);
+            wait(0.2); 
+        }
+    }
+}