[SOLVED] Writing custom characters to LCD display

[crazy-igzp]

Hi all. Tried a search but did not find any answer.
My current application is using the pic 16f877 displaying data onto an LCD 2x16 display (can't remember the details about the model). I would like to display a couple of custom characters like male or female, I'm using Micro C.
any ideas?

 

[pjmelect]

Its very easy to set custom characters for the LCD 2x16 display, one tip after you have define the custom character you will have to re position the cursor address.

 

[Mrunal Ahirrao]

MikroC got its own Custom LCD tool use it.

 

[Gorgon]

If you are using a LCD display with a HD44780 controller from Hitachi, or some other compatible clone, you can program up to 8 characters into the CG RAM. To use these in your text, you just write the character codes '00' to '07' to the display. You will need to program the patterns when initiating the display. Each character use 8 bytes to make a pattern, in the 5x7 character set, a total of 64 bytes for 8 characters.

To do this you should study the datasheet for the controller.