ColorSensor and displayed int on the LCD screen

[frederik]

Today I received my new ColorSensor. While doing some tests for my new project (a Duplimate ) I found something strange happening.

A small part of the test program:

int color=0;

if (true) {
color = CS.getColorNumber();
if (color == 5) {
Sound.beep();
} // if
} // if
LCD.drawInt(color,3,6);
LCD.refresh();


the strange thing happening is the number on the LCD screen. It starts with a number between 0 and 17 but later on another digit appears and the displayed number is between 0 and 100. My "debugging-number 5 beep" tells me that variable "color" is 5 at that moment but the LCD screen shows 57 with a yellow paper in front of the sensor.

Any ideas what's happening? Thanx in advance! Frederik.
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[kirkpthompson]

Instead of

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LCD.drawInt(color,3,6);

try

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LCD.drawString(color + "   ",3,5);

The spaces at the end of the string (which is the color number converted to a string due to the concatenation operator +) will "wipe" out any previous displayed values if the number of digits in the color value get less. eg: "11" from "100"

[lawrie]

Or you can do:

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LCD.drawInt(color,2,3,6);

and the color value will always occupy two character positions on the screen.

[frederik]

Thank you, both workarounds solved the problem. The number on the screen is now an int between 0 and 17.
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