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Hello all.
New to this forum and to Arduino.
I have bought a Mega 2650 , AD9850 and a LCD keypad 16x2 and i want to control the frequency simply by the buttons and display the frequency on the LCD.
I have downloaded a few testcodes and button grabber sketches and i got an ide how to do this in separate sketches but i cant do it in one sketch.
If anyone can help out i would be very greatful.
Im really enjoying the Arduino and i want to learn alot.
Regards /Janne

[Reply #1 on:]

Welcome,
How well do you understand functions and the programming language of the Arduino. That is the essence of the solution to your problem of merging.

you must make a sort of choice/menu system on top level and from that calling one function that does what you want.

example
you have now sketch1 with a loop and sketch2 with a loop and your new program should become (in pseudo code)

Code:

void loop()
{
  int choice = MenuChoice();  // KeyPress;
  switch(choice)
  {
  case 1: loop1(); break;  // use better names that reflect the function e.g. sinus, triangel square etc
  case 2: loop2(); break;
  case 3: loop3(); break;
  case 4: loop4(); break;
  default: // do nothing
  }
} 

void loop1() ...

etc

[Reply #2 on:]

Im a beginner at programming the Arduino so this will really help.
Thanks
/Janne