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(...) That would be a bug. My apologies. I had totally forgotten about that option. I don't know when I broke it but it definitely is broken. I've fixed it now so that if you have that option selected it pops up the templates and if you don't have (...) (20 years ago, 13-Oct-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Thanks John, I'm a bit confused; in Help it says: 'In the Preferences you can also indicate that you want the list of templates to appear as a popup menu when you press the right mouse button.' I am getting copy paste etc when I right-click (I (...) (20 years ago, 13-Oct-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) The templates that appear via the F9 function key cannot be made to appear on a right mouse click. In an editor window the right mouse click will always show a popup menu. I confess to being extremely prejudiced against the templates window. I (...) (20 years ago, 13-Oct-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Further to the above: Whilst the Run and Stop icons fail to interact with the RCX ~80% of the time they always seem to work just after using the bricx remote! (and this virtual remote has never failed in ~ 60 attempts). Distance seems to have (...) (20 years ago, 12-Oct-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) That's not SO important ;o) I just wondered if I missed something! (...) Don't worry too much for me, it does that only with some of my bricks. Moreover I just made a new try with a RCX that usually needs slow download and it worked fine (...) (20 years ago, 12-Oct-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) I've only just downloaded 3.3.7.10 having played with 3.3.7.7 for a week [using a serial tower and WinXP] and Vers.10 does seem to have a problem communicating , it sometimes cannot set a program running:The RCX shows the recieving triangle (...) (20 years ago, 12-Oct-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Nearly all the dialogs in BricxCC now sport "What's This?" help. The "not entirely complete" part means that I haven't written the help text entries for every control on every dialog. Or, more accurately, I have written just a few of the help (...) (20 years ago, 11-Oct-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Here are the contents of my helloworld.mak file: ROOT=/brickos KERNEL=$(ROOT)/boot/brickOS PROGRAMS=helloworld.lx DOBJECTS= all:: $(DOBJECTS) $(PROGRAMS) download:: all $(ROOT)/util/dll --program=1 --tty=usb --rcxaddr=0 $(PROGRAMS) set_addr:: (...) (20 years ago, 11-Oct-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BricxCC release 3.3.7.10
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Dear John, Your continous effort to improve an already impressive software is very much appreciated - many thanks, and please keep on. Same applies to the NQC-update. Best regards, Dirk (20 years ago, 11-Oct-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: BricxCC release 3.3.7.10
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Many thanks for your commitment with NQC and BricxXX ! (...) Where are those modifications? (...) That's much more convenient indeed! (...) Is it possible to remove a calculated series when no longer needed? (...) Be assured that a lot of people (me (...) (20 years ago, 6-Oct-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) I am not experienced in running brickOS under Windows, but are you sure you can mix the "/" and "\" in the path names? "\" is Windows style, "/" is UNIX style. (That is why I do all my brickOSing with Linux) (...) Why? I mean, why (...) (20 years ago, 6-Oct-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Thank you for your informations. After closing the error message window, I clicked F12 key. The resulting Code Listing Window contained nothing. The content of the file helloworld.mak is ROOT=C:\cygwin\brickos KERNEL=$(ROOT)/boot/brickOS (...) (20 years ago, 6-Oct-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BricxCC release 3.3.7.10
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(...) hi John, Maybe the silence is just one big compliment, ... ... Bricxcc is totally ready ... Bricxcc doesn't have any bugs ... Bricxcc is doing all that we can wish Although I don't use it regular anymore, I never got the feeling to look for a (...) (20 years ago, 5-Oct-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: BricxCC release 3.3.7.10
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hello, I found that the tabbed windows are great !! I really love them!! good work Cristian "John Hansen" <afanofosc@comcast.net> ha scritto nel messaggio news:InuKD9.AzM@lugnet.com... (...) (20 years ago, 4-Oct-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | BricxCC release 3.3.7.10
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(URL) just released BricxCC 3.3.7.10. Lots of stuff is unfinished but it has been forever since my last official release. New Stuff (in part): Version 3.3.7.10 has a revised help system (not entirely complete). It adds support for the new Swan (...) (20 years ago, 4-Oct-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(URL) a bug in expressions like a = a*2 + a*3; Thanks! John Hansen (20 years ago, 4-Oct-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) I found that either rotating a colour wheel in front of the sensor(with its distance LED off) in combination with a white light -or- using a coloured LED at a _very_ close distance works well; i.e. most materials give a marked response as long (...) (20 years ago, 3-Oct-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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Hi, Can someone post a latest compiled version of the brickos 0.9.0 (BrickOS.srec) I have some trouble to compile this version Thanks, Jan Kromhout Hellevoetsluis-NL (20 years ago, 3-Oct-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi, questions to all the guru out there. I have spent 20 hours on this roboarm. I am hoping to make it work like a color sorter. - pick up a ball wrapped in tin foil and drop it off at a container wrapped up in tin foil as well. - pick up a ball (...) (20 years ago, 2-Oct-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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(...) Can you do F12 and post the contents (if any)? Do you have bash installed? While the error message is displayed you can open a command prompt and change directory to the location of your source code file. There you should find a .cmd and a (...) (20 years ago, 29-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I have not yet made an official 3.3.7.9 release of BricxCC. My apologies for the delay. For now you can use the latest version in swan_test.zip. John Hansen (20 years ago, 29-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Can't upload new program after I have used LNP under brickos
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(...) Well, thanks for the help, that didn't actually work. But I found it out, what was my fault. In my Program I changed the LNP Base adress of the robot. After that the robot did not react to the default adress 0. So, at the end of the program I (...) (20 years ago, 29-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi, I found on the sourceforge.net the Brixcc version 3.3.7.7 and in the swan_test.zip the version 3.3.7.9. Is there a newer version? Regards, Jan Kromhout Hellevoetsluis-NL (20 years ago, 27-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Hi, Can someone tell me wath the status is of the Enhanced Firmware? and the latest version of BrixCC? Regards Jan Kromhout Hellevoetsluis-NL (20 years ago, 27-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Am Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:35:05 GMT "Francois Bardet" <f.bardet@voila.fr> tippte: (...) this is not the default i programmed this functions, but the docu is in only in german avialible if you can read german, have a look at (URL) there was an other (...) (20 years ago, 26-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Can't upload new program after I have used LNP under brickos
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(...) You had to turn on the lnp, with something like this: (I forget the exact commands) lr_startup(); lr_init(); lnp_init(); Make sure you turn it off: lr_shutdown(); Steve (20 years ago, 26-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi Mindstormers, 1) Does BrickOS allow to write/read measured data into the RCX memory, in order to plot or process it later on the computer ? If yes, what are the command lines to : - allocate the memory space ? - to write and read ? - free this (...) (20 years ago, 26-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Can't upload new program after I have used LNP under brickos
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Hello, |I have the following problem: |when I use lnp under brickos, the rcx does no longer respond to the legotower. |This means that I can't delete the program nor overwrite it. | |Pershaps somebody can help. | |Thanks, | |Andy (20 years ago, 26-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Unable to delete programm after having used lnp under brickos
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Hello, I have the following problem: when I use lnp under brickos, the rcx does no longer respond to the legotower. This means that I can't delete the program nor overwrite it. Pershaps somebody can help. Thanky, Andy (20 years ago, 26-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I'm starting to use the swan firmware and I'm having a problem with the scheduling. It seems like a task with a long wait does not yield properly to other tasks. Here the NQC code sample: task taska() { WaitMS(150); AddToDatalog(9900); } task main() (...) (20 years ago, 22-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Palm 130, pbrick, rcx 1.0 Can the palm 130 with pbrick be used to control an rcx that doesn't have firmware downloaded? My suspicion is that it won't work without the firmware. Tammy (20 years ago, 22-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: time sampling under the rcx standard OS
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(...) Here's a code byte from my LegWay code. ---- int MotorSpeedArray[32] = {1,3,2,0}; // Speeds // ... later in the program... if (sys_time>CheckTime) // check system timer - is it time to check sensors again? { L1 = ReadSensor(SENSOR_1); L3 = (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Hi Steve, As I'm quite new to BrickOS and to C programming, I'm sorry I'm not sure I understood what you meant, neither how you do this : (...) - Do you check the sensor at a higher rate, and only send a command to the motor at 1kHz ? - How do you (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | position servoing under BrickOS
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Thanks to your advices, Dick, Matt, and Steve, I've been very happy to solve my time sampling problems, installing BrickOS, which runs the rcx fast enough to get a proper position servoing (using rotation or light sensor, and a PID controller). I (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | error in using brickOS under Bricx Command Center
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Dear all, I am new to Lego Mindstorms programming. Recently I installed Bricx Command Center in Windows XP Home following the instructions in (URL) I am able to use NQC and leJOS but not brickOS under Bricx Command Center. (Downloading the brickOS (...) (20 years ago, 17-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: time sampling under the rcx standard OS
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(...) Well, in BrickOS, my loops usually execute at > 1kHz, so I usually just set it to check the sensor, and set the motor every 1ms. So it just keeps checking the clock. (...) Yes. There's an option that lets you download an "SREC" type of file. I (...) (20 years ago, 19-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Sorry, I didn't explain. This program only aims at checking the loop frequency capability of the rcx firmware, implementing a PWM. The rotation sensor is only used as a potentiometer knob, allowing me to determine by hand the PWM pulse as (...) (20 years ago, 19-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Thank you Matt, the RCX loops much faster with your advices : about 10 loops per second. But as this frequency depends on the calculations included in the loop, I’m afraid this will not be enough. So I tried to download (URL) but it just appears as (...) (20 years ago, 18-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Thank you Dick, for advicing me to switch to the faster firmware, I’m sure I need both a 1-millisecond basic clock, and the 128 power level capability. So I tried to download it from (URL) but it just appears as a text file, which I don’t know how (...) (20 years ago, 18-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | RE: time sampling under the rcx standard OS
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Here are some comments on how to improve your code for real-time performance. 1. Move the "SetUserDisplay" out of the loop and put it just before the loop. 2. I think the "OnFwd" macro is actually two instructions: "Fwd" and then "On". Replace this (...) (20 years ago, 17-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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