WPILib & LCD Display

[ASeligman]

We're trying to use just WPILib to display a character on an LCD screen through a TX port on a Vex processor.

We aren't having too much luck with making it happen with just these functions that WPILib gives us:

unsigned char ReadSerialPortOne(void);
unsigned char ReadSerialPortTwo(void);
void WriteSerialPortOne(unsigned char byte);
void WriteSerialPortTwo(unsigned char byte);
void OpenSerialPortOne(unsigned baudRate);
void OpenSerialPortTwo(unsigned baudRate);

These are the definitions for the BAUD rates:

#define BAUD_4800 0x0081
#define BAUD_9600 0x0040
#define BAUD_14400 0x01AD
#define BAUD_19200 0x0181
#define BAUD_28800 0x0156
#define BAUD_38400 0x0140
#define BAUD_57600 0x012A
#define BAUD_115200 0x0115

We tried out Kevin Watson's serial port code, and it works, and we've found out a BAUD of 9600 should be used for an LCD display. Also, his code and the WPILib manual say Port 2 should be used for the LCD display. The only problem is his code has so much more than we need for just this goal.

It seems like there should be a way to use the functions in WPILib to output a character (and later a string of characters) to an LCD display serially. Is it possible?