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RE: Support for pbForth in BricxCC
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lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth
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Mon, 4 Mar 2002 05:10:03 GMT
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> I've started a project recently related to pbForth. And I'm interested in
> some community feedback. Last night I wrote a preliminary pbForth syntax
> highlighter for the editor component I use in BricxCC.
John,
This is great news! My own Tcl based GUI is a bit lacking, and a grand
unified firmware uploader sounds like a great idea. I've been away
on holidays and conferences most of the month, so I've missed most
of this thread.
Quick question, does BrickCC work on Macs and PCs?
> I've also made it so BricxCC lists other firmware types (.srec files) in the
> firmware download open dialog. I have also had a suggestion that I add some
> sort of two-way communication mechanism into BricxCC for downloading
> programs and interacting with pbForth running on the RCX.
pbForth expects 2400,n,8,1 on the serial port. The tower echoes back every
and then any output from the words is added to it. The trick is pacing
so that you can send the next line. If you carefully dump the serial data
stream from the new pbForth (2.0.x) you will see that I added a little cheat.
When in console mode, pbForth sends an XON character when it's ready to
accept more input. After the CR at the end of the line, pbForth sends an
XOFF. This primitive form of pacing works pretty well.
> Is there much community interest in this sort of capability? I've struggled
> to find detailed up-to-date documentation for exactly what you can do in
> pbForth. Does pbForth support the entire set of CORE (and CORE-EXT) words
> of ANS Forth? Is there a document anywhere that lists all the words in
> pbForth's built-in dictionary? I'm interested in details regarding the
> communication mechanism with pbForth so I can figure out whether I can get
> it to work in BricxCC or not (or whether it is worth the effort).
As always, suppporting this stuff is hard. John, let me know what you need
and I'll try to help as quickly as I can.
Cheers, Ralph
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