no matching function for call to 'LiquidCrystal::blink(int)'

[caps_67]

#include <LiquidCrystal.h>


LiquidCrystal lcd(1, 2, 10, 11, 12, 13);

 void setup() {
  lcd.begin(16,2);
 }

void loop(){
  lcd.print("Arduino");
  delay(3000);

  lcd.setCursor(2,1);
  lcd.print("LCD Turtorial");
  delay(3000);

   lcd.clear();

   lcd.blink();
   lcd.blink(4000);
   lcd.setCursor(7,1);
   delay(3000);
   lcd.noBlink():

   lcd.cursor();
   delay(4000);
   lcd.noCursor();

   lcd.clear();
}




I'm having trouble with the libraries of the displays. What I'm trying to to is get a potentiometer to work with a LCD (16x2). What I want to do is turn on and off the LCD with the potentiometer. But it giving me an error called, no matching function for call to 'LiquidCrystal::blink(int)' and I did look up this exact question on google and still don't understand why I did cause this error.   

[groundFungus]

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lcd.blink(4000);

The blink function() takes no arguments.  

[noiasca]

What I want to do is turn on and off the LCD with the potentiometer

there is no "turn on and off the LCD".
blink will blink the cursor.

You can either clear() the display - no characters will be shown
or if you have connected the backlight to a gpio + transistor - you can turn on/off the backlight - but the characters on the LCD will still be there.


edit:
never thought, that there is really something like

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// Turn the display on/off (quickly)
void LiquidCrystal::noDisplay() {
  _displaycontrol &= ~LCD_DISPLAYON;
  command(LCD_DISPLAYCONTROL | _displaycontrol);
}
void LiquidCrystal::display() {
  _displaycontrol |= LCD_DISPLAYON;
  command(LCD_DISPLAYCONTROL | _displaycontrol);
}
...

[groundFungus]

There are the display() and noDisplay() functions that turn the display of characters on and off.

[bperrybap]

There are the display() and noDisplay() functions that turn the display of characters on and off.

And in other lcd libraries like the hd44780 library, there is also off() and on() which not only turns the LCD pixels off/on, as is done with noDisplay() and display()  but if you have h/w backlight control using an Arduino pin, and configure the library to use it, the off()/on() will also turn off/on the backlight as well.

--- bill