a newb trying to get it together

hello folks,

here’s my question - is anyone able to signpost me to some material on how to program a two line alphanumeric mono type LCD display please?

I’ve been trawling the internet for some such info prior to the purchase of some ‘trial’ hardware and came across this forum while in ‘research mode’ for an idea I have.

The LCD display is intended for use on a battery powered handheld device and my goal is to be able to code it so that the user perhaps has either predictive text or a scrolling menu feature that will enable them to select just one from numerous entries in an address book type feature.

I anticipate that the display will be ‘driven/fed’ via a serial feed i.e. not a parallel feed so my current task is to get my head around how to achieve that goal and to identify the resources and materials I need in order to bring myself up to speed in that area.

Any thoughts, ideas, suggestions, recommendations, feedback all gratefully received and appreciated.

Best wishes,

yoyojoe

now sorted thanks (at last); happy to say that I found something in an item related to programming pic’s