 | | Can the Run button be reprogrammed? —Steve Lane
| | | | I was just wondering, can the Run button on the RCX be reprogrammed? I was thinking of a theoretical, fail-safe system, where it would be nice to run a clean-up routine after the run button had been pressed to stop the program. I reckon you'd have (...) (20 years ago, 9-Feb-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: Can the Run button be reprogrammed? —Steve Hassenplug
| | | | | (...) BrickOS does allow you to configure how the buttons are used. The RUN and Power buttons are read in the BrickOS "firmware", so you'd need to change the kernal, if you want to do other things with them, but it is very possible. So, yes, the run (...) (20 years ago, 9-Feb-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Can the Run button be reprogrammed? —Ralph Hempel
| | | | | (...) Not to put too fine a point on it, but RUN, PRGM and VIEW are read from an I/O port, while the ON/OFF button is tied to an interrupt line. That's what lets you wake the RCX up from a deep sleep, which you can't do with the other buttons. Ralph (20 years ago, 9-Feb-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Can the Run button be reprogrammed? —Claude Baumann
| | | | | (...) Ultimate Robolab provides very easy access to the RCX buttons. With a few icons you can reprogram any of them. Here a nice example : (URL) you press the Run-button in this example, you'll here a sweep down system sound. This is the philosophy (...) (20 years ago, 10-Feb-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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