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Has anybody had problem running Robolab2 on a win2000 PC with SP2 installed?? I've recently tried to install Robolab on a PC at work and found that on loading it fails with an error message, I'll take care to remember the message if this rings a (...) (23 years ago, 24-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | RE: modulo in legOS 2.4 ?
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Ummm, that would be the % operator in C, right? (...) (23 years ago, 24-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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hi all, just wonderin if there is such a thing as a modulo opperator in legOS 2.4 ? i checked the stdlib.h (which seems to be the place where the math functions are), but no luck. regards kenneth johansen kennethj@stud.cs.uit.no (23 years ago, 24-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LVI install problems
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(...) Well, that seemed to do something. It finds install.class, but I get the error message "Error creating .lvi directory" Thanks for your help! -- Steve (ps my Learning Java book arrives from amazon.com today, so I've got to get this working! :O (...) (23 years ago, 24-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: LVI install problems
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Try setting the classpath to point to the place where the install class is. I have this problem a few times, and most of the time I can't get it to work. :-( Most of the time people just have to experiment as very few ever seem to report having this (...) (23 years ago, 24-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | C++ and linux HELP!!!
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HI! I have the same problems as Vittorio's - we actually are working together :) - : the makefile.common in the legOS 0.2.5 version recall a g++ cross compiler instead of the cross version of gcc directly but among the tools provided there's only (...) (23 years ago, 24-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LVI install problems
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(...) Yes, this is with the compiled classes. Trying from the source didn't work either. Could it have something to do with the CLASSPATH variable? I used the command set CLASSPATH=C:\Steve\L...\tools.jar before trying "java install" from the (...) (23 years ago, 23-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: LVI install problems
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Which version did you download? I assume you got the compiled classes? If you downloaded the source, make sure all the classes are compiled, and that you are in the directory where the install class is. Andy (...) -- See my Visual Interface for (...) (23 years ago, 23-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | LVI install problems
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Given that I'm new to Java this is probably a silly question, but when I try to install LVI I get the error: C:\Steve\Lego\lejos\lvi>java install Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: install Java2 and LeJOS seem to be working (...) (23 years ago, 23-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: Wishlist leJOS
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(...) You could use the JavaComm package, look on the Java website for it. It should not be that hard to set up the port, write to it, and then get replies back. Look at the other Java projects mentioned on (URL) to see how communication is done. I (...) (23 years ago, 23-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: Wishlist leJOS
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I (another newbie) also would like to upload data from the RCX to a Windows PC. It looks like adding the data to a StringBuffer would be a good way to save it, but I have not much of a clue about how to write (1) the Java that runs on the PC to (...) (23 years ago, 23-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: Lego Camera and legOS
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(...) IIRC, the identifier chip is different, so it returns a different ID, otheriwse it is a regular QuickCam. Change the driver so it recognizes the different chip, and it should work (at least this is what it seemed to be on the robotics mailing (...) (23 years ago, 22-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: RcxCC Font problem
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(...) That worked. Thanks a lot. (...) No problem for me. I only use my font in regular style. Marc Klein Marc Klein A Mindstorms fan. (23 years ago, 22-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Lego Camera and legOS
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Hi, There are two versions of the Logitech QuickCam Express which use two different sensors and as far as I know, only one of them is supported by the alpha driver for Linux. I think that the Lego Cam (and your camera, maybe)uses the other sensor... (...) (23 years ago, 22-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | New Version: MacNQC 2.2.3
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Hi All, I just put up version 2.2.3 of MacNQC. The changes are: * Added a menu to select which program slot the code is to be downloaded into. * Added command in the editor to shift text left or right on tab space. * Fixed a memory corruption (...) (23 years ago, 22-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Wishlist leJOS
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(...) I didn't think of that, but it might explain why my attemps to use the OP cods failed (they hung the RCX completely dead). Then again, I might have used them wrong... Björn (23 years ago, 22-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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Last I checked, the chip which the lego camera uses is unsupported under linux. I wrote up a short discussion of what I knew at the time here: (URL) is even less than I seem to remember knowing but hopefully the link there can be helpful. Luis (...) (...) (23 years ago, 22-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: RcxCC Font problem
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(...) Thanks! It's been a lot of fun working on it in my spare time lately. I'm glad that a few people have found it worthwhile. (...) I've dug around in the code to try and figure out what is going on here and I think I understand the problem now. (...) (23 years ago, 22-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Lego Camera and legOS
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In lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, Kenneth Johansen writes: . (...) AFAIK it is not possible yet. ISTR that the legocam is closely related to the Logitech QuickCam express and the project to develop drivers for the latter (look at (URL) ) will eventually (...) (23 years ago, 22-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Lego Camera and legOS
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(...) argg....forgot to start a new thread, hopefully you guys will read it anyways :) kenneth johansen kennethj@stud.cs.uit.no (23 years ago, 22-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Lego Camera and legOS
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hi all, my supervisor, recently supplied me with a camera that is part of the "vision command" package. unfortunately (and naturally) it only comes with software for windoze. so i was wondering if theres anyone out there that has managed to use this (...) (23 years ago, 22-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Dead IR Tower
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Well, after months of flaky IR comms between my tower and the RCX, I can finally say that the tower has died. :-( I've forgotten who first suggested it, but using a videocamera to see if the IR led is still functional is brilliant! I confirmed that (...) (23 years ago, 22-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Wishlist leJOS
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(...) There still could be some special rom code that is called when the opcode is called for the standard firmware. Not very likely, but still possible. Andy -- See my Visual Interface for leJOS at (URL) (23 years ago, 22-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | R: c++
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Thank you Pat! I should be able to make it go. I'll tell you the results in a couple of weeks, cause I have to finish another project on lnp first. I still don't understand much the unix community: if version 2.5 is to be patched anyway, why not (...) (23 years ago, 22-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Wishlist leJOS
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(...) Remember that Lejos is replacement firmware, the OP codes no longer exist as they are part of the standard firmware. Regards Gordon (23 years ago, 22-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: Wishlist leJOS
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(...) I think that the datalogging area is just a special limited firmware array, but , IIRC, since it mentions nowhere that you have to remember to keep the datalog size into account. Try using the opcodes, and see what works. Andy -- See my Visual (...) (23 years ago, 21-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: Wishlist leJOS
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(...) It does answer my question, but I was thinking that a feature like that would be more memory efficient. It seems to me (knowing very little of programmimg small devices) that there are special OP codes (looking at Keokea Proudfoot's RCX (...) (23 years ago, 21-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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Hi, I checked into the CVS repository some changes today. They include: A) a fix to util/dll-src/Makefile to reference ../../kernel/lnp.c, so a symbolic link or copy is not required. B) small changes to various makefiles to get c++ support working (...) (23 years ago, 21-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: c++
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Hi, Sorry that I've been AWOL! Attached is a set of patches you can apply to the 2.5 distribution to clean up most of the make process. You will still have to correctly specify the TOOLPREFIX in Makefile.common, or via the make command line. You can (...) (23 years ago, 21-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Wishlist leJOS
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There's no need to implement this because Java allows you to create an array and store as much data as you want in it. You have a lot more power by using an array over the NQC feature, which I believe is limited to something like 100 numbers. Hope (...) (23 years ago, 21-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | RcxCC (again)
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I'm embarassed to admit that I've posted yet another revised version of RcxCC to my website. Version 3.2.9.0 further extends the graphing ability I added in over the course of the two previous revisions. In this release it is possible to display a (...) (23 years ago, 21-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | RcxCC Font problem
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First, thanks a lot to continue the developpment of RcxCC. Your program is great ! I have a little problem with your program. I made a font for my own purpose (small, readable, all characters different). This font is not display correctly in your (...) (23 years ago, 20-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Another new RcxCC version
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hi John, (...) RCXcc / reset worked fine, that's a lot more extended then the orginal RCXcc ! (...) At the moment I'm building such an implementation, the main program is a kind of oscilloscope and the launched application is a controler for a (...) (23 years ago, 20-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Another new RcxCC version
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(...) I'm guessing the problem with templates is a registry problem. If you are comfortable with editing your registry you might check for a Templates key under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\So...CC\version 3.2\. If that key exists but it contains no string (...) (23 years ago, 20-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Is c++ supported in legOs2.5 ? We've been unable to compile even the demos! (I already posted about that) Please give us a voice! thanks Ciao, Vittorio (23 years ago, 20-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Another new RcxCC version
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hi John, looks good, but I can't use it yet. The main problem I have is that I can't see my templates. At once I found them, a window 10 pixels win width and 25 pixels in height, and I can't get it bigger. Am I doing something wrong ? Very nice (...) (23 years ago, 19-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Trouble loading programs
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Hi all, I'm new to legos and am having some problems loading programs. I have searched the news pages for my particular error and there are some that are close but not exactly. I hope someone can help because I am currently "dead in the water". Here (...) (23 years ago, 19-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Dead RCX
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(...) Thanks for the response. I tried bending the tabs to ensure they were making contact with the batteries. That didn't work, so I opened the case and confirmed that the 9V (actually 9.6V) was reaching the voltage regulator. It was, so I know (...) (23 years ago, 19-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Another new RcxCC version
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Rather than postpone this upload until I'm completely done with the feature, I decided to make it available for anyone interested since I think it is turning out to be very nice. I've just posted version 3.2.7.3 of RcxCC (with the latest source) to (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Dead RCX
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(...) Hi Matthias, normally I'd call LEGO service. The only thing I can think of is that maybe the power connection is lost. That shouldn't happen to an unopened RCX, but who knows. The power connection from the batteries to the mainboard is by (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Dead RCX
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(...) It's completely and utterly dead. Matthias Jetleb VA3-MWJ (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Problem with Lejos 1.0.0Beta3
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Are you sure the port you IR tower is connected to is really com2? You might try connecting to com1, and then just use lejosfirndl . For me, this works - it tries com1, and then downloads. (...) (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: Dead RCX
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Completely dead? no response of any kind when you push the ON/OFF button? I ask because if battery power is off for too long, the firmware evaporates and the RCX is pretty non -responsive. But the LCD is not blank. If this is the case, download the (...) (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Floating ponts ??
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(...) Exceptions to the 0th law: You are manipulating and comparing floating-point values you know are integers with a magnitude less than a million or two. You are manipulating and comparing values you know are integer multiples of some power of (...) (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Floating ponts ??
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Hi there! (...) 0th law of computer science: NEVER use == on floats; it simply doesn't work as expected. In most cases a value cannot be exactly represented as a float variable; so MOST comparisons for equality WILL fail. (this is NOT an issue of (...) (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Dead RCX
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Has anyone had an RCX just plain die on them? - Brand new - used manybe 30min total - Fresh batteries - Nothing hooked up to it at the time - Did it's usual beep on startup as my son switched it on and off to listen to the sound I assumed he had (...) (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: New RcxCC page
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(...) 1) Enhanced watch window with counters (for RCX2 & Scout). Watching the Scout now mostly works. I'm still trying to find out how to poll the timers on the Scout. 2) New Remote dialog that is closely modelled after the Lego Remote (works with (...) (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: lnpd
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Ah. Those links. I have asked Markus to move those a couple of times but he no longer responds to my emails. I'm afraid that until he does those links will remain in place (and remain quite dead.) Sorry... Luis (...) ---...--- "Nobody ever said that (...) (23 years ago, 16-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: lnpd
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(...) This is old news, but I didn't find any answer to it while there are still two such links on (URL) the Doc section, the link to the HOWTO points to (URL) in the File section, the link to the Windows 9x/NT compiler points to (URL) (23 years ago, 16-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: MindScope, watch sensors/vars/timers in a graph
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hi All, Version 1.0 is released and sources are published. Major improvements: - fast sampling ( 1 channel = 50 Hz / 2 channels = 33 Hz / 3 channels = 23 Hz / 4 channels = 18 Hz) - no spirit.ocx required - some bugs fixed have fun with it ! (...) (...) (23 years ago, 15-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: permissions
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(...) Thanks! But rather than do things for a single user I opted for: chmod 666 ttyS0 If I'm not mistaken, this will give every user access to Serial port 0 (comm 1). Since my system only uses comm 1 for the lego tower this seems like a safe thing (...) (23 years ago, 15-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | New RcxCC page
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I finally whipped together a very simple web page for my revised RcxCC. You can find it at: (URL) Hansen (23 years ago, 15-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: permissions
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the following error as a user. [James@Sauron demo]$ ../util/dll helloworld.lx open: Permission denied opening tty: Permission denied To what directory or files does my user need permission? I tried using a find on tty to no avail. A little help? if (...) (23 years ago, 15-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | permissions
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Hello, The first thing I have ever installed on a *nix platform was legOS on my recently (last week) converted Redhat Linux PC. I didn't really know how this sort of thing is supposed to work, so I did the whole install as root. Of course after I (...) (23 years ago, 15-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: API changes
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I agree with most of Luis statement. I've worked for three years in the embedded software development (for cars), and I think it's quite dangerous to have RCX functions with the same name that Unix ones, because they don't do the same thing. Using (...) (23 years ago, 14-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Another RcxCC revision
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hi John, Fantastic that you released your sources !! That's a good reason for me to try and test your program. I haven't found the time to do it. Also I'll try to compile your sources and look into them. I'll let you know my experiences. (...) met (...) (23 years ago, 12-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Another RcxCC revision
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I just uploaded another revised rcxcc.zip file to my website. (URL) isn't changed significantly from the version I uploaded last night. I cleaned up the source code and removed obsolete references to units that aren't used now that I've abandoned (...) (23 years ago, 12-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: API changes
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I'm actually on my way to my baccalaureate ceremony right now, but I do want to say that I feel very strongly that API changes for the sake of API changes should not be checked in. The current API, while not always intuitive, is well documented and (...) (23 years ago, 12-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: NQC's RCX Communication Code
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(...) You'll need a bunch of files from the rcxlib directory (primarily RCX_Link.cpp, which implements the communication protocol). You'll also need the serial interface code which resides in platform/PSerial_unix.cpp (plus a few include files in (...) (23 years ago, 12-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: API changes
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(...) I don't imagine that these changes will increase memory usage much, since they are largely just re-working existing features. I will look into the memory usage before releasing, though. In fact, I think that after I redid the networking a bit (...) (23 years ago, 12-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | NQC's RCX Communication Code
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Hi- This message is probably only answerable by Dave, but someone else might know the answer. I'm trying to build a GNOME (a linux GUI) application for controlling the RCX, ala the tools menu of RCXcc. Anyway, I wanted to know what files I would (...) (23 years ago, 12-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: NQC vs Spirit communication speed
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(...) I knew Scout didn't support the opcode, but overlooked the Cybermaster case. I'll fix it for NQC as well. The return value for an unsupported opcode doesn't really matter since nothing is going to come back anyway, so predictive will fail no (...) (23 years ago, 12-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: NQC vs Spirit communication speed
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(...) I made PredictReplyLength a member of the RCXLink class so it can return a different value for case 0x20 (it returns 20 if the Target is Cybermaster and 0 if it is Scout - since the Scout doesn't support that opcode). Of course, in Object (...) (23 years ago, 11-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: NQC vs Spirit communication speed
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(...) Correct - dynamic timing is turned off when predictive is being used (which is the default). Predictive is relatively new, and I wasn't sure which code you started with (or how you ported/used it), so that's why I explained the dynamic timing. (...) (23 years ago, 11-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: NQC vs Spirit communication speed
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hi John, I'm curious to see your "Fakespirit" class. At this moment I only need a limit set of commands, so I send by a couple of simple routines to my serial commport driver (indepent thread). Here is the basic code I use, timing is very a stable (...) (23 years ago, 11-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: NQC vs Spirit communication speed
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(...) I'm using AutoLink.Send for most things. Initially I was always closing the link at the end of each method (which mostly map to the Spirit OCX API). I've made that configurable and at present I'm running with it set to leave the link open. (...) (23 years ago, 11-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: NQC vs Spirit communication speed
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(...) I looked into this a bit more and the poll bytecode (0x12) didn't have a case in the PredictReplyLength() switch. If you add... case 0x12: // poll return 2; then poll will be a lot faster. If you run into other bytecodes that you use a lot, (...) (23 years ago, 11-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: NQC vs Spirit communication speed
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The retry timing for RCX_Link uses a dynamic backoff, which is a good general purpose solution if you're going to be sending lots of packets (like a typical NQC download) and the latency through the serial driver is unknown and/or unpredictable (...) (23 years ago, 11-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | NQC vs Spirit communication speed
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This is more a general RCX communication question, actually. As I mentioned here previously, I've ported the NQC communication code to Delphi for the purposes of modifying RcxCC to not use the Spirit OCX. At present I have a version of RcxCC that (...) (23 years ago, 11-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: API changes
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My only concern with these proposed changes is possible increased memory usage. Encapsulation, error reporting, thread synchronisation etc are nice; but with just 32k of RAM I would question whether these are appropriate for some applications. For (...) (23 years ago, 11-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Data-transfering RCX -> PC in LeJOS
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I hope you can solve your problem; I would be very interested in finding out how you did it. I also would like to upload large chunks of data from the RCX to calibrate the light sensor for example. (...) (23 years ago, 11-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: API changes
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(...) These seems to me good ideas. Adding errno would also be useful. bye Bernardo New e-mail: dibbe@freestation.it (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: new features
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(...) I think it'll be very useful. (...) I worked on a reliable transport protocol written on top of LNP for my thesis a few months ago. It was my intention to make it available on the Internet, but I wasn't very happy with the implementation, (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | API changes
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In using legOS, I've found that many of the design decisions seem somewhat backwards, and I think that this is due to a desire to keep the interface as similar as possible to NQC. I was wondering what people would think about changing the core API (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | new features
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I just checked in a change to CVS which adds a new feature. Let me know if you have any problems with this: /* When no program is running, pressing the "view" button cycles through * a display of the amount of the amount of free memory (in decimal (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Problem with Lejos 1.0.0Beta3
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C:\>lejosfirmdl --tty=com2 Use --help for options. file://f/work/lejos/...josfirmdl: bad ir link what does this error mean? I did everything to work lejos, but I got that error all the time. There's nothing wrong with serial connection, nor tower (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | Re: NQC 2.4 beta test
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(...) Great! Thanks for all your hard work, Dave. - Rik. (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: NQC 2.4 beta test
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(...) Sorry, NQC doesn't have anything like that right now, but its a good idea. I'll make sure it gets added before 2.4 goes final. I like __NQC__ taking on a numeric value, and I'd want to leave room for more than 10 minor versions per major (...) (23 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Thanks Dave !! That was a very good explanation! In return a problem (and solution) with the serial data transmission (not an NQC error, but you could add it to your documentation). In doing fast data transfer from RCX to PC, there seems to be a (...) (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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I just acquired a 64meg iPaq 3670 for use with Mindstorms and NQC but I haven't been able to find a ARM build of any of the software. Does anyone know of any or can they compile it? (URL) it for the SH3 and MIPS but not for the new generation of (...) (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.palm, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Dave, does NQC have version specific #defines? I want to write some code that would compile differently depending on the version of NQC. Something like: #ifndef _NQC24_ ...or... #if (_NQC_ < 24) #include "bitShift.nqh" #endif #ifdef _NQC24_ ...or... (...) (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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NQC 2.4 a1 is in beta test, at the usual place: (URL) some of the constant value restrictions on some operators, added an option for merged source/assembly listings, added the ternary operator, added variable names back into code listings. Dave Baum (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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It has very little to do with C itself - its really a question of compiler optimization. NQC doesn't have any explicit optimization passes, and there is no data flow or variable lifetime analysis, so often the assembly will be a bit inefficient. (...) (23 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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hi All, I'm not a C-programmer, so maybe I'm asking a (very) stupid question. In searching for the fastest algoritme, I looked into the code generated by NQC (through RCXcc-orginal ;-)). I noticed that when you write your code in basic elementary 2 (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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"John Hansen" <JohnBinder@aol.com> wrote in message news:GCtr1y.Fvr@lugnet.com... (...) files (...) I don't know witch of the betas you tried but the only thing you mention above is that Edit menu dissapears, witch there is different opinion about. (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Scout support still has a long way to go in many ways, imho. A lot works but I still haven't implemented correct scout support in several of the dialogs. I've tried the command line option for Scout (/RCX=2) and it definitely works on my (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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John, Seems like support for the scout is pretty complete except for the target command line option when compiling a program. I have written some programs that compile clean using nqc, but generate syntax errors for Scout specific commands when (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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I have been using John Hansen's revised RCXCC for about a month now and I have to say I have been very pleased with it. I have been especially pleased at how amazingly responsive John has been in responding to my requests and bug reports. I just (...) (23 years ago, 5-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Actually either option will work. The lower case ell (-l) option is a deprecated option, but since I use it myself a lot (out of habit) is hasn't been removed from the source yet. The upper case variant is more powerful since you can (...) (23 years ago, 5-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Okay, that's a good idea ! I made (maybe too hidden) suggestions some time ago and didn't get any respons. For me that was the second time (besides some maybe too difficult questions) I didn't get a respons, the first time was when I directly (...) (23 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) I've tried nqcedit and it wasn't bad. Cut/Copy/Paste options are not functional. Replace is not functional. Closing all the document windows causes the Edit menu to disappear (which I dislike). It leaves *.log files in the directory. It's okay (...) (23 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: RCXcc by John H or RCXcc by Mark O. Was (Re: RCXCC or Visual NQC 2001?)
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(...) You should be able to simply extract the files in the zip on my website into your RcxCC directory, replacing RcxCC.exe, the contents of the Default subdirectory, and creating a Help subdirectory containing Mark's old help file. Then run "RcxCC (...) (23 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) That's simply not true. I fully intend to release the source code to my revised version of RcxCC. When did I indicate otherwise? As you are probably aware, Mark didn't release his source code until he decided to no longer develop the software. (...) (23 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) No, it is a separate piece of software, available from the Pitsco-LEGO store, shown here: (URL) (23 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Have you tried NQCEdit? Test it and im sure you be happy about it. You can find it on (URL) or (URL) small (about 500kb) with many options and supports RCX, RCX2, CyberMaster and the Scout. Color options and textsize options. Best regard Martin (...) (23 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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due to makefile used in 0.2.5 version, when i try to make a c++ program it searches for h8300-hitachi-g++ but this executable cross compiler is not present in the file conataining gcc cross compiler and the other tools - i downloaded it from this (...) (23 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Double check the actual program you are test to make sure that you don't have: p = 0.4 /* Only one = */ This is the number one "c" typo and is easy to overlook Lester been there, done that (23 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I can't check this out now, but keep e-mailing me until I do. -Kekoa kekoa@graphics.stanford.edu (23 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RCXcc by John H or RCXcc by Mark O. Was (Re: RCXCC or Visual NQC 2001?)
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Can anyone tell me what's new in the RCXcc Version by John as oppose to the old RCXcc? Also in downloading the zip file from John's site and I suppose to replace my old RCXcc files with these? Thanks! Ahui Herrera (23 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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I haven't tried Visual NQC, neither have I tried the new version of RCXcc of John Hansen. I'm still using the old Mark Overmars RCXcc and I'm quiet happy with it. The reason for not trying al those new ones is the long term expectations. Neither of (...) (23 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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