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Re: Datalog in Delphi
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Date: 
Wed, 6 Jan 1999 08:34:13 GMT
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"Keith Miller" <kmiller@talon.net>
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I want the ldraw.dat for that one!!!!!!

I wish I had your IMAGINATION..
please.. if you have a ldraw file.. share!

-----Original Message-----
From: Simen Svale Skogsrud <simen@mop.no>
To: LEGO Robotics List <lego-robotics@crynwr.com>
Date: Wednesday, January 06, 1999 1:27 AM
Subject: Datalog in Delphi


> I have made a simple 25dpi monochrome scanner with my kit. Using NQC i have
> written a small program for the RCX that advances the scanner one line and
> reads aproximately 170 samples from the light-sensor while running it on a
> carriage over the image. These samples are stored in a datalog which a
> Delphi application on my PC then downloads before telling the RCX to go on
> scanning the next line.
> 
> I have trouble getting the RCX to send the whole datalog in one transfer.
> 
> I do like this:
> 
> First I ask the RCX how many samples it got by reading the first entry of
> the datalog:
> 
>    scanline := Spirit.UploadDatalog(0,1);
>    datamount := scanline[2,0];
> 
> this is typically 170-180. If I then ask the RCX to upload it all by
> writing
> 
> Spirit.UploadDatalog(1,170) // or any other value more than 50
> 
> i get an empty array as result. I have gotten around this by uploading it
> in chunks smaller than 50 entries. This works well, but I can see no reason
> why this should be, it is probably sub optimal as well. I find no
> references to this problem in the Spirit documentation from Lego. Any
> ideas?
> 
> thank you
> Simen
> 
> 
> BTW: Thanks to Dave and Mark for NQCC and RcxCC. I just got my kit and
> wasted just about 3 minutes on the Lego software. It is scandalous. My RIS
> would probably collect dust in the back of my closet by now if it werent
> for your elegant pieces of software - and I wouldnt be out in the toy-shops
> stocking up on expensive lego-kits on every oportunity. TLG should send you
> both a fair amount of money and include your software on their next
> release.
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