Swordfish

AndyO

I'm currently evaluating both SF SE and Proton's Amicus

You might want to have a look at Digital DIY. The site has code examples, tutorials, completed projects and a forum section for both Swordfish and Proton which might help you make a comparison between the two.

Cheers,

Andy.

AndyO

BigDigit.bas displays large digits and other characters on a 4-line character LCD. Two different fonts and two character widths are available. http://digital-diy.com/images/stories/authors/andyo/BigDigit/Group.jpg Module description and code hosted at digital-diy.com Hope it's of use to someone. An...

AndyO

Nice articles - thanks or sharing.

It seems that as long as you issue a Cursor Home or a Clear Display command after you're finished shifting than that will reset the address block back to where it's supposed to be and you're good to go with the next command?

AndyO

Is this the sort of situation where macros would help?

If you change my original code to this, does it produce more efficient code?

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dim TestPin0 as portb.0
dim TestPin1 as portb.1

macro FlashPin(pin)

    high(pin)
    delayms(1000)
    low(pin)

end macro


FlashPin(testpin0)
FlashPin(testpin1)

AndyO

You can use ByRef to pass a pin to a sub:

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Dim TestPin0 As portb.0
Dim TestPin1 as portb.1

sub FlashPin(byref Pin as bit)

    high(Pin)
    delayms(1000)
    low(Pin)

end sub


FlashPin(testpin0)
FlashPin(testpin1)

AndyO

I put together a Swordfish module for controlling hobby-type servos which might do what you need. Module, description and sample code are at Digital-DIY

AndyO

I'll second Jon's post - welcome back

AndyO

I may have missed the point here but if the problem is caused when your interrupt routine calls a sub / function then could you do this: interrupt MyInt() save(0,MyFunction) 'Interrupt code which calls MyFunction restore end interrupt That will context save any RAM locations which are used by MyFunc...

AndyO

I've not had a problem with upper / lower case. Someone corect me if I've got this wrong but I thought there was a problem with Swordfish and using Timer0 in 16bit mode. When writing to TMR0 you need to write the high byte first and when reading from TMR0 you need to read the low byte first. Writing...

AndyO

Strange. The following compiles fine for me:

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Device = 18F1220
Clock = 8

Dim Timer1 as TMR1L.AsWord
Dim WordValue as Word


Timer1 = 1000
WordValue = Timer1

Can you try the above and see if you get the same error? Can you post your code where the error occurs?

AndyO

What device are you using?

AndyO

Afraid I can't help at all. But wanted to say thanks as I wasn't aware of the 'F12 to compile only' shortcut. If it's not rubbing salt into your wounds, I will be using it quite a bit from now on

Hope you get your problem sorted. Does re-installing SF help?

AndyO

Cheers. I've used the module to make a simple USB 8 channel servo controller - source code and description here:

http://digital-diy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=392

AndyO

I've written a module to control 1 to 8 RC Servos. The full description and code are hosted at digital-diy.com.

I've also added it to the Modules page of the Wiki but couldn't put a direct link to the digital-diy.com page. Hope it's of use to someone.

Cheers,

Andy.

AndyO

I don't have my dongle with me so can't check this but is it possible that each ADC read is triggering the interupt when the conversion is completed?

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