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Subject: 
Honk if your debugging?
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lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc
Date: 
Sat, 29 Jan 2000 22:45:37 GMT
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I have been doing an unfortunate amount of debugging.  I really miss
the printf statement to send myself messages like:

what am I doing here?  with these variables at these levels?

But I have found at least one handy substitute based on the sound
element, a strange little brick that has a round top, and a connector
like base and will make one sound forward and one sound reverse.

You can put it right on output B then use a routine like

void honk(){
    OnFor(OUT_B,10);
    }

As a code marker to cause the robot to make a sound when passing
by certain lines of code or making certain decisions, or for that
matter not honking if they never get that far.



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Honk if your debugging?
 
(...) I do pretty much the same thing, but I just use various tones generated by the RCX... (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
  Re: Honk if your debugging?
 
(...) That's one of the great things about legOS. You can display hex or decimal numbers easily, and the rudimentary ascii display is really very useful. I've easily saved more time debugging just because of that than I spent installing legOS in the (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)

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