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Re: RCX.pm questions [and Linux RCX GUI question]
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Date: 
Mon, 6 Nov 2000 21:45:17 GMT
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So, I have some more questions to anyone who wants to answer them :) (John,
hope you are listening ;)

1) Do I need to recreate $rcx after a while? It looks to me that under many
circumstances, repeated calls to the RCX will fail to cause the tower to turn
on. Is this a known bug? feature? Anyone?

2) If anyone cares, I'm attempting to teach myself the GTK GUI tools by
building a GUI for RCX.pm which would allow linux users to control their RCX
remotely. If anyone has any feature requests, now is the time to get them in :)
Of course, if I can't figure out why RCX.pm is flaking on me then I can't see
the project getting finished any time soon (no time to recreate the
functionality of RCX.pm in LNP :|

Anyway, hope someone can enlighten me...
Luis


In lugnet.robotics.rcx, Luis Villa writes:
> So, I've finally found a little bit of time to play with RCX.pm, and it is
> pretty cool. However, I'm having lots of problems convincing the RCX to
> actually do things :) it appears that in many cases, the first signal sent to
> the RCX is always ignored. Additionally, it appears that multiple commands sent
> in succession will all be ignored unless there are sleeps between them (I'm
> trying to experiment to see how long the sleeps need to be.)
> Anyone have any suggestions as to what I might be doing wrong? Or is this
> normal behavior?
> Luis



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  Painful details on RCX.pm problems
 
More RCX.pm stuff in case John Quillan (to whom I'll be forever indebted, if this ever works) shows up. So I have this code: #!/usr/bin/perl use LEGO::RCX; my $rcx = new LEGO::RCX(); $rcx->ping(); $k = 0; while($k ne 10) { print($k.") (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
  Re: RCX.pm questions [and Linux RCX GUI question]
 
You need any help building the GUI? I was thinking of doing a Perl Tk for my linux box. (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
  Re: RCX.pm questions [and Linux RCX GUI question]
 
(...) Wow, I'm looking forward for that. Just what I need. Sorry I don't know anything about GTK, I would have liked to help you... Jacob (26 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)

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  RCX.pm questions
 
So, I've finally found a little bit of time to play with RCX.pm, and it is pretty cool. However, I'm having lots of problems convincing the RCX to actually do things :) it appears that in many cases, the first signal sent to the RCX is always (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)

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