LCD - CustomCharacter:117: error: call of overloaded 'write(int)' is ambiguous

[scotty1973]

Hi

I have been using the LCD examples that came with the IDE, I have had no problems with the Hello World one and scrolling text one, But the Custom Character one when I run it comes up with the following error:



CustomCharacter.cpp: In function 'void setup()':
CustomCharacter:114: error: call of overloaded 'write(int)' is ambiguous
C:\Users\Scott\Documents\Arduino\arduino-1.0.1-windows\arduino-1.0.1\libraries\LiquidCrystal/LiquidCrystal.h:82: note: candidates are: virtual size_t LiquidCrystal::write(uint8_t)
C:\Users\Scott\Documents\Arduino\arduino-1.0.1-windows\arduino-1.0.1\hardware\arduino\cores\arduino/Print.h:49: note:                 size_t Print::write(const char*)

Being new to the programming side I am at a loss as to how to fix this error.

Any Help on this matter would be appriciated!!

Thanks

Scott.

[dxw00d]

Change

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  lcd.write(0);
to

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  lcd.write((byte)0);
on line 115ish.

[scotty1973]

Hi

Thanks thats sorted it!!

Scott   

[rtrentler]

Thanks for the help as well.

[neeraj786]

why did u use the ""lcd.write((byte)0);""" instead of "lcd.write(0);"     1 thing i know that if we use lcd.write(0); then complier will show "call of overloaded 'write(int) is ambiguous." why we use the byte in lcd.write() function.

[shimoda]

I'm assuming that the custom characters were typed as byte, and thus the change in declaration, new to this so perhaps someone else could chime in.

[floresta]

why did u use the ""lcd.write((byte)0);""" instead of "lcd.write(0);"  

It's because of how the Arduino IDE deals with 'writing'.  The complete explanation can be found here:  http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=174883.msg1299547#msg1299547.

Scroll up a few posts (http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=174883.msg1298248#msg1298248) and I explain how you could have used:

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lcd.write(8);  

Don