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Subject: 
Re: new icon in RCX LCD readout
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Mon, 21 Oct 2002 22:16:18 GMT
Original-From: 
Laura O'Grady <L.OGRADY@SYMPATICO.spamlessCA>
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Mike,

Rob Limbaugh emailed me with this suggestion and I thought it was likely as
I was fiddling around with the datalog button in BricxCC right before I
changed the batteries.  I am not a Robolab user but in fact use NQC.  I
have just used the datalog option of "clear datalog" and in fact the icon
is gone.  Thanks for your help and details about how it works.

Laura

At 05:41 PM 21/10/02 -0400, Mike Thorn wrote:
> At 05:35 PM 10/21/02, you wrote:
> > Yesterday I took the batteries out of my RCX to replace them with some
> > rechargeables.  After doing this I noticed a new icon on the LCD
> > readout.  On the right hand side, about midway down there is now is a pie
> > shaped one quarter of a circle (two straight lines and one curved line
> > joining the ends of the two straight lines, filled in solid) blinking.
> > 
> > Everything appears to work fine. I did not have to re-install the
> > firmware and all the saved programs worked. I looked in the first part of
> > the constructopedia from RIS 2.0 and there was no reference to this
> > icon.  I also looked around online but could find no
> > interpretation.  Does anyone know what it is?  Thanks.
> 
> I have no idea how that would come to be blinking, but normally it's the
> datalog icon. It means something is in the datalog, usually (I say that
> because I don't know why it would blink after a battery swipe). I don't
> know how you would erase the datalog with RoboLab, unfortunately (I'm
> assuming from previous posts that you are using RL). I'm more of an NQC
> character.
> 
> When the datalog is full there would be a full circle split into four. It
> would also stop blinking. When it's 25%, 50%, 75% and 100% one quarter
> shows up and doesn't blink. Blinking indicates partially full.



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  new icon in RCX LCD readout
 
Yesterday I took the batteries out of my RCX to replace them with some rechargeables. After doing this I noticed a new icon on the LCD readout. On the right hand side, about midway down there is now is a pie shaped one quarter of a circle (two (...) (24 years ago, 21-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics)

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