Thank you aleksandar. I am using the pro version (I think?), it says "mikroBASIC Pro for PIC v3.8" in the About page. I'm very interested in the features available in the upcoming 4.0x release. I don't need HID at the moment but it is good to know it is available when I will need it. The main attrac...

Thank you for the suggestion. I want to use port D for the LCD. port B is half used for in circuit programming. So I tried LATD and it now works, although not at first and I can't replicate the failure condition, which was missing/corrupted characters on LCD. I had searched for 2 days, unsuccessfull...

Just to revive this problem. I too am having the same issue - can't get HD44780 based LCD to display on an 18F458 Its not the 18F458 or the LCD (I tried 3 different ones). its the COMPILER! I wrote an LCD test routine in picBASIC pro and the LCD worked. picBASIC pro has options for LCD_commandus and...