4D Systems uLCD-43PT Touch Screen Issues

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Good day to all,

I have been working on a project, on and off, for over a year now and at long last all the parts are in my possession, so I started testing my sketch to see if everything works. Since I have not been receiving replies on the project thread, I decided to start a new thread which will mainly focus on the LCD.

Though this LCD from 4D Systems is a wonderful addition to a project, it is not hassle free...especially since I got into electronics for the sake of this project. My tendency to overcomplicate things does not help either. :wink:

So here is the first post tackling the first issue I have:

I have quite a few forms(pages) on the LCD, three of which has an on-screen keyboard which captures info (Job Title, Job Number, Date) and a string object to display what has been typed.
When I test the sketch, the string object only displays the last letter that's been typed and not the whole string.

Here is a snippet of the code I use for this purpose:

    if (Event.reportObject.object == GENIE_OBJ_KEYBOARD) // Check whether Report Message was from a Keyboard
    {
      int kbrdIndex = Event.reportObject.index;
      switch (kbrdIndex)
      {
        case 0:
        {
          kbValue[keyCounter] = LCD.GetEventData(&Event);  // Write key value to jobTitle variable
          if(kbValue[keyCounter] == 8)  //Check for Backspace
          {
            keyCounter--;
            kbValue[keyCounter] = ' ';
            LCD.WriteStr(1, kbValue);
            keyCounter--;
          }
          else
          {
            jobTitle += kbValue[keyCounter];
            LCD.WriteStr(1, kbValue);
          }
          keyCounter = keyCounter + 1;
          break;
        }
        case 1:
        {
          kbValue[keyCounter] = LCD.GetEventData(&Event);  // Write key value to dateTitle variable
          if(kbValue[keyCounter] == 8)  //Check for Backspace
          {
            keyCounter--;
            kbValue[keyCounter] = ' ';
            keyCounter--;
          }
          else
          {
            date += kbValue[keyCounter];
            LCD.WriteStr(7, kbValue);
          }
          keyCounter = keyCounter + 1;
          break;
        }
        case 2:
        {
          kbValue[keyCounter] = LCD.GetEventData(&Event);  // Write key value to jobNum variable
          if(kbValue[keyCounter] == 8)  //Check for Backspace
          {
            keyCounter--;
            kbValue[keyCounter] = ' ';
            keyCounter--;
          }
          else
          {
            jobNum += kbValue[keyCounter];
            LCD.WriteStr(0, kbValue);
          }
          keyCounter = keyCounter + 1;
          break;
        }
      }
    }

If anyone can check to see if they find issues with my code, I'd be extremely great full.

Regards,

Martin

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