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Description
Disabling Auto Line Wrap will allow you to have full control over the
cursor position. This means that once the cursor has advanced to the
end of a line, it will not wrap over to the next line, unless given the ’Set
Cursor Position’ Command.
NOTE All characters written to the display past the end of a line will be lost.
Remembered
Yes
5.8 Set Cursor Position
Syntax
Hexadecimal
0xFE 0x47 [col] [row]
Decimal
254 71 [col] [row]
ASCII
254 “G” [col] [row]
Parameters
Parameter
Length
Description
col
1
Column
row
1
Row
Description
This command will allow you to manually set the cursor position, which
controls the text insertion point, by specifying the [col] and [row] of the
new proposed cursor position.
NOTE If the cursor position is set past the end of a line it will wrap to the beginning of
the next line.
Remembered
No
5.9 Go Home
Syntax
Hexadecimal
0xFE 0x48
Decimal
254 72
ASCII
254 “H”
Description
This command will return the cursor to the top left corner of the display
area, identified as row one, column one.
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