Hi all,
I just bought two LCD controllers from web4robot. http://www.web4robot.com/LCDCtrl.html. I downloaded and unzipped their library into the library folder in IDE arduino 1.0. I opened their "hello world" example sketch. Then tried to compile it. It would not compile. I thinking the library needs to be updated for Arduino 1.0. I did a little looking around and found send() and receive() have been replaced with read() and write(). I tried to open the .cpp and .h files in Arduino 1.0 and it won't let me. Something about Processing can only open files ending in .ino and .pde. Is where a different program to open and edit Arduino libraries? Any help would be wonderful.
Thanks,
Redneck
You can use any text editor.
Alternatively you can open the file that is the same name as the library folder and there should be a tab with the .cpp and .h files which you can then edit from the arduino IDE.
I only have notepad on my computer. When I open the .ccp file. I get some stuff the makes sense but a lot that doesn't (empty boxes). Maybe I need a different text editor.
Thanks for the help,
Redneck
Yes note pad is not a text editor, there are plenty about for free.
Hey thanks a lot. I got something I can read. 
Crimson Editor is pretty good:
Notepad -not- a text editor? How so?
Note pad is a pain in the ass. Obviously it can not deal with text unless it complies to its notion of what constitutes a new line Newline - Wikipedia. Notepad++ http://notepad-plus-plus.org/ is a reasonable text editor though 
Well, if we're posting our favourites, I've always liked TextPad http://www.textpad.com/.
GoForSmoke:
Notepad -not- a text editor? How so?
Notepad, like a lot of Windows products, is OK if you don't stray from the Windows world.
However it is missing practically every feature you might find useful. In fact, I think it is just a Windows "Edit" control turned into an app.
IDM Computing offers Ultra Edit and UE Studio, both excellent code editors. Both are extensible.
I never said that Notepad is much of a text editor, just wondered how it's not one at all. Hell, I've rolled my own editors that were better than Notepad before M$-Winblows was ever sold!
How many remember the old line editors like what came with CP/M 30 years or so ago? Productivity-wise the CP/M line editor was a very good tool, far better than a lot of page-type editors. I made changes en masse and had it report back to me every line changed, no need to scan through all the text to see what was done. Very fast, very effective. It just takes a lot more brain-juice to use a line editor well, like console vs GUI.
Ah, those were the days ...