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Re: Is the program running?
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lugnet.robotics.rcx
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Sun, 10 Mar 2002 00:05:10 GMT
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Dick Swan <DICKSWA@SBCGLOBAL.avoidspamNET>
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"Barney Hilken" <barneyhilken@mac.com> wrote in message news:Gsq8J6.Ds9@lugnet.com...
> Does anyone know how to poll the RCX (with standard firmware 2.0) to find
> out whether a program has terminated yet? If you can see the LCD, you can
> see whether the little man is still moving, but can you check this from a
> host computer? The description of RCX commands in Lego SDK 2.0 Beta doesn't
> seem to include anything to do this. Is it possible?
There is no direct way to interrogate the RCX with standard firmware.
However, it could be simply handled programmatically. Use a global variable to set a flag when program starts / stops and then poll
this flag.
Note that the 'definition' of a program running is that any task is running and not just task 0 which is the primary task.
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