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Re: preventing IR tower shutdown
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 14 Apr 1999 12:17:05 GMT
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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 and doing
things, the VB program can't get a response. When this has
happened, even a ALiveOrNot call doesn't get a response.
However, motor control commands do get sent to the RCX because
the RCX does what it was told to do.
The only way I could get back return values from the RCX when this
has occurred, is to restart my VB program. Then all is well even
without switching the RCX off and on.
Antony.
John Cooper wrote in message ...
> 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 words by emitting strings
> back to the PC, but after a while the tower doesn't see them even
> though the RCX is still spewing debug messages. It would have been a
> good idea if the tower had been designed to look at the traffic in
> both directions before deciding to timeout.
> --
> John & James Cooper, Wallington, UK
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>
> --
> Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
>
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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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