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Re: VB Upload Problem
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Date: 
Mon, 26 Jun 2000 16:11:50 GMT
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You could always check how big your datalog is by uploading the first point of
the datalog in VB.  The third element of the first point (point 0) is the size
of the datalog. Throw that in a databox and see what it gives you.

I would agree that VB probably isn't clearing the datalog. I always use NQC
for this. I created a scanner using a NQC program to create the datalog and
control the robot, and a VB program to get the datalog and turn it into
pixels. Of course all of this looped.

Nate


In lugnet.robotics, Dave Baum writes:
In article <Fwo5xB.M16@lugnet.com>, "Ben Erwin" <ben@alum.mit.edu>
wrote:

ok, so i'm getting a little closer to answering my own question, but i'm
still
stuck.

if i write a new robolab program to take 10 points of light data and then
upload it with VB, those 10 points get put into slots 10-20 in the
datalog,
and points 1-10 in the datalog remain intact for some reason.  Also,
these
light sensor values are labeled "variable 23" -- but i wouldn't put it
past
chris to have called the light sensor 'variable 23' in robolab for who
knows
what reason.  i'll have to ask him.


I think chris is putting some other info in the datalog.  I poked at
this briefly when using an early version of Robolab 2.0, but I don't
recall the exact details.  I think it comes from Robolab trying to use
the datalog to record multiple channels of info, so it add in values
describing how the datalog is used.

I be the reason he logs a variable is that he really wants to put a
constant into the log, but that isn't allowed, so you move the constant
into a scratch variable, then log the var.

anyway, when i then go and download a data-taking program for light and
temp
data (the one posted the previous message) and then upload THAT with VB
or
NQC, that data is tacked on to the VERY END of the datalog, and looks
pretty
normal (with the addition of a .ClearTimer 0, which I had forgotten).

My guess is that the VB call to SetDatalog isn't doing anything.  Try
running this brief NQC program - it should erase the datalog completely:

task main()
{
CreateDatalog(0);
}

If the datalog symbols on the LCD are still lit/flashing, then for some
mysterious reason your RCX won't erase its datalog.

Then try your VB program.  If the datalog doesn't exist (no LCD symbols
lit/flashing, and an upload reveals no data), then the VB call is hosed.
I took a brief look at your code and I think it should work, but I'm not
much of a VB or Spirit.ocx expert.

Dave

--
reply to: dbaum at enteract dot com



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Well, Chris verifies that he uses variable 23, 24, and 25 to log values in ROBOLAB, and that he also puts in random stuff such as which sensor it is, etc. in the beginning of the datalog. But this still leaves the problem of how to clear the (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)

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(...) I think chris is putting some other info in the datalog. I poked at this briefly when using an early version of Robolab 2.0, but I don't recall the exact details. I think it comes from Robolab trying to use the datalog to record multiple (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)

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