What Is an LCD?

<sidebar>Sidebar: What Is a Component?</sidebar> A liquid-crystal display (LCD) is a flat panel display which can electronically display images and sometimes videos, in this case it is mainly used to display numbers and letters using variables which can also be controlled or changed by other components to input data to display on the LCD.

LCDs in Flowcode can be used in numerous ways to display data using different methods and techniques, LCDs can print (display) data using as variables and can display ASCII symbols, numbers/digits, strings and even raw data. The components have the functionality to display scrolling text/data to convey a message larger than the maximum number of characters the LCD can physically display.

The default LCD components available in Flowcode consist of data displays.