C library for Adafruit RGB Negative 16x2 LCD+Keypad Kit for Raspberry Pi

[JanBlomqvist]

Hi, I wonder if there are any C libraries or any C code for the Adafruit RGB Negative 16x2 LCD+Keypad Kit for Raspberry Pi. The software on the Git hub is just Python.

/Jan

[adafruit]

At this time we have only Python - there's a lot of dependencies that would be required to make it work in C, its not an easy task to port!

[FunkyELF]

Hi, I wonder if there are any C libraries or any C code for the Adafruit RGB Negative 16x2 LCD+Keypad Kit for Raspberry Pi. The software on the Git hub is just Python.

/Jan

If you want to use it from C... calling Python code from C is pretty easy.
You'd just initialize a Python interpreter, instantiate a Adafruit_CharLCDPlate object. Keep it global for simplicity.
Then you can write C function wrappers that call the clear, message, and backlight functions on the the Adafruit_CharLCDPlate object.

Not a native C library, but if you want to be able to control it via C code, that'll work.

[JanBlomqvist]

If you want to use it from C... calling Python code from C is pretty easy.
You'd just initialize a Python interpreter, instantiate a Adafruit_CharLCDPlate object. Keep it global for simplicity.
Then you can write C function wrappers that call the clear, message, and backlight functions on the the Adafruit_CharLCDPlate object.

Not a native C library, but if you want to be able to control it via C code, that'll work.

Thanks for the idea, but I had honestly hoped for complete C libs, anyway, I'll take this in account when I plan my coding, I need to think things over before I jump all over it.

/Jan