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| Allo Hopefully someone can help. I'm sending the following code to my RCX when I click on a vb menu item: Private Sub mnuFiveHundred_Click() SetDatalog 500 lego.SetVar 12, CON, 500 End Sub ie setting variable 12 to 500 in immediate mode. Variable 12 (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) The variables are 16 bit signed (-32768 to 32767), but the loop counter is only an 8 bit unsigned (0 to 255). When you set the loop counter from a variable it ignores the high bits and truncates. Dave Baum (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Hi (...) Yep you're right Dave and I feel pretty stupid. The loop command is only good up to 255, so I'm now using a while...end while. I need to learn to read the RCX SDK parameter table a bit better. So much to learn, so much fun. Cheers ;-) Mike (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Don't feel bad...I made the same mistake myself. Dave Baum (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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