Using Eclipse IDE

Required Software

• Software– Eclipse SDK

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About the driver

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• fantom.sys– LEGO NXT driver

• libusb0.sys– Lib-usb driver

• You must have both the two drivers installed on your PC

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Eclipse Installation

• Extract eclipse-SDK-3.4.1-win32.zip to your desired directory.

• Execute eclipse.exe in the directory.

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Creating a project

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Creating external tools

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Using Eclipse

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Some methods

• For LCD class– drawString(String str, int x, int y);– drawString(String str, int x, int y, boolean invert);– drawInt(int i, int x, int y);– drawInt(int i, int places, int x, int y);– drawChar(char c, int x, int y, boolean invert);– clear();

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• For Button class– 4 instances

• Button.ENTER (code: 1)• Button.LEFT (code: 2)• Button.RIGHT (code: 4)• Button.ESCAPE (code: 8)

– boolean isPressed(); – static  int waitForPress() – static int readButtons();

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Lab2

• The NXT LCD screen is 16 characters wide and eight characters deep

• Write a program to show all the student numbers of your group in the way just like the staff list in a movie. (Run as infinite loop). After pressing “Enter”, exit the program.

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x ranges from 0 to 15, and y from 0 to 7.