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Re: LCD image editor for the NXT -- at LEGO Engineering.com
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Date: 
Sun, 22 Oct 2006 06:13:50 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics.nxt, John Hansen wrote:
> In lugnet.robotics.nxt, Ross Crawford wrote:
> > In lugnet.robotics.nxt, Jordan Bradford wrote:
> > > I just found out about this website, a partnership between LEGO and Tufts
> > > University's Center for Engineering Educational Outreach:
> > > 
> > > <http://www.legoengineering.com/>
> > > 
> > > Of special interest is their LCD image editor application for the NXT
> > > (Windows only), found here:
> > > 
> > > <http://www.legoengineering.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=30&Itemid=60>
> > 
> > Hmmm. Just created a simple image and uploaded it using the NXT explorer, but
> > when I try to display it, nothing displays and syscall returns -122. Same
> > program displays faceopen.ric ok, but curiously syscall returns -3 for that,
> > even though the doco says non-zero return = error. Here's my program:
> 
> 
> The way that RIC files are drawn, a valid file will always produce an error
> result.  This is because the code iterates through all the opcodes in the RIC
> file, executing each of them in turn until there are no more opcodes left.  At
> that point it exits with an error response indicating that there are no more
> valid opcodes left.

Ah, so it's just the documentation which is unclear.

> Early versions of the NXT Explorer window in BricxCC and NextTool were not using
> the linear open command for RIC images as they were supposed to.  I am nearly
> certain that the latest versions of BricxCC and NextTool are now using the
> correct code for uploading an icon file to the NXT.  Perhaps this might explain
> the error you are getting.  Can you try downloading the current test_release.zip
> from the BricxCC website and try your test again?

Yep, that now draws correctly and returns -3 same as faceopen.ric.

Thanks!

ROSCO



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  Re: LCD image editor for the NXT -- at LEGO Engineering.com
 
(...) The way that RIC files are drawn, a valid file will always produce an error result. This is because the code iterates through all the opcodes in the RIC file, executing each of them in turn until there are no more opcodes left. At that point (...) (20 years ago, 22-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)

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