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| | | (...) I'm going to go at it from the other direction, I am writing an IDE (32 bit windows) for the pbFORTH system. My intention is to send a keepalive character every now and then to stop the tower going to sleep, at the moment I am debugging FORTH (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: preventing IR tower shutdown —Antony Furneaux
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| | | | | This just might explain a problem I am having with a VB program. After a while my battery meter function stops getting a reply from the RCX. It calls the RCX every 10 secs from a Timer control event. Then all of a sudden, while the RCX is still on (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: preventing IR tower shutdown —Laurentino Martins
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| | | | | (...) I had a problem that happened a lot to me in Visual C++ and that might be or not be related with your problem. Simply put, what happened was that a simple FOR/WHILE cycle waiting for a response of the unit was so processor intensive, that the (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | Re: preventing IR tower shutdown —Ron Beck
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| | | | | | (...) In VB you would probably want to put a DoEvents in such a tight loop. -- Did you check the web site first?: (URL) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | RE: preventing IR tower shutdown —Ralph Hempel
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| | | | (...) Usually a capacitor lives across the power lines, and introducing a wire would be a good way of drianing the battery, burning the wire and possibly yourself!!! DON'T DO THIS... Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check out pbFORTH for LEGO (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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