Displaying Power Expander Voltage on LCD

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#1

We are trying to figure out how to display battery voltages on our LCD screen using EasyCv5. We have made it display primary and back_up voltages. We would like to program it as follows:
Line 1 display primary voltage
line 2 display power expander voltage
line 2 display back_up battery voltage when button 1 is depressed.

The power expander is connected to the cortex in analog port 1. Using the print screen function it displays a reading in the terminal window. We even know to divide that value by 70 to get a fairly accurate voltage. What do we need to do to get the secondary voltage displayed on the LCD line 2? And how do we get Button 1 to change the display to back_up battery voltage?

Thank you in advance for our help!
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#2

I’m no EasyC expert, but in general, if you have a loop like this and want to switch the view using a button, you need to keep some kind of inner state - a variable. You’d then pick what to display based on that state:


  if (otherDisplay) {
    SetLCDText(1, 2, "9V=%d", NineV);
  } else {
    SetLCDText(1, 2, "Extra=%d", Back_up);
  }

You’d then also need to switch based on the button:


  if (Button1Pressed /* I don't know how to read LCD buttons in EasyC */ ) {
    otherDisplay = !otherDisplay;
    /* add some kind of debounce, otherwise the display will keep toggling
         between the two at the speed of your control loop while you're holding the button */ 
  }
#3