Swordfish

Thanks Jerry,

I have some troubleshooting to do.

I tried installing SwordfishSE to see if it would work. Same problem.

In this case, the compiling progress bar goes about a third of the way across the box in the first step, and I'm dumped back to the IDE screen. No errors or messages, and it's not locked up

Swordfish has worked well on my computer but has recently become unreliable. Sometimes when compiling, it just stops part way through, not completing the process. Sometimes it locks up during the process with the message at the bottom of the screen "compiling, please wait." Other times, it seems to ...

The more things I tried to make sense of this problem, the less sense everything made.

Rebooting solved everything. Thanks for the suggestions and sorry for the needless question!

I'm trying to read the value of a port into a byte array. Seems like it should be simple, but my efforts last night didn't work. What I tried was A(1) = PortB() This resulted in the compiler going off into never never land. No error was indicated but compiling didn't complete. What I'm trying to do ...

Thank you sir,

Once again you saved the day!

Jon

I'm using an On Semiconductor CAT5171 digipot with the SI2C module and having a strange problem. When I red back the values I write to it, the returned value is half of the value I set. I don't know if the set value is incorrect, or the returned value. I'm reading the register just as a way to deter...

Thanks David. Let me work with it and see what i can do. The code is 24 printed pages and because of the nature of the problem, i don't think i can post just a snipet that will demonstrate the problem. The block of code causing the issue contains a number of IF/THEN statements nested inside an IF/TH...

I'm having a strange problem. I'm making some changes to some old code, and I replaced a block of code in the main program loop with some revised code in an existing subroutine. When I attempted to compile it, I got the error: System Error: Working register allocation failure I tried a few things, a...

Thanks for the suggestion Jerry, but no success. It hangs up at some point. I think the difficulty lies in the SMBus "send byte" vs the I2C "write byte" protocols. I'm wondering if I an just shift out the needed bytes to get the chip turned on, then use the more conventional I2C format. I'll keep at...

Has anyone had any success using this chip with Swordfish? I've used a lot of different I2C chips but this one is somewhat unique. I'm having trouble getting anything from it, and it seems to be related to the command register on page 14 of this data sheet . In I2C chips I used, you have to set up a...

Thanks Jerry. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't overlooking some simple method!

I'm reading 8 input pins on an I2C port expander. The data is read out as a byte. I'm testing the status of each bit with 8 IF/THEN statements testing VARIABLE.BITS(n). I should be able to do the same thing with a mask and a logical AND, but it's still 8 IF/THEN statements but this still doesn't see...

Thank you sir! Appreciate all you've done to help make Swordfish great.

Thanks David.