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Subject:	Define Event icon...
Newsgroups:	lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc
Date:	Sun, 2 Jan 2005 04:42:26 GMT
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Hi I'd like to set up an event to watch for a containers value = 3. I am trying to use the "Define Event" icon, but has no luck yet. Just wonder if there is anyone out there has suggestion. The official doc does not explain much different from what comes from the "help" menu from Robolab. -- Happy New Year! -- MIME ATTACHMENTS DISCARDED: 1. Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Length: 1298

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		Re: Define Event icon...
(...) Elizabeth, you are a few steps ahead of me in working with 'Events'. Could you explain, in plain English, what exactly an 'Event' is? ...it's not a 'State' because it can be a constant or a variable. Yet you can have an 'Event Fork' which is (...) (20 years ago, 2-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)

		Re: Define Event icon...
(...) I fear I became very frustrated with Robolab, so can't help you specificly with that enviroment, but... at a firmware level, events can "watch" several different sources: sensors, timers, three simple counters... however, they can not be (...) (20 years ago, 2-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)

		Re: Define Event icon...
(...) The condition of being equal to 3 is not an event. However, the action of transitioning to 3 is. I'd use the "set up normal event" command followed by the "define event" command. Set the upper threshold to 4, the lower to 2, and the duration (...) (20 years ago, 2-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)

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