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(...) If you have the new version 2.1 the POWER-OFF word via terminal to shut off and the red button to power on works fine. If you have an earlier version (1.2x) you have to use the words RCX_INIT and POWER_INIT to initialize the brick and the (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) off (...) True. But I find not very practical to be forced to use the terminal to switch off the RCX or start the program again, expecially when you are attending a contest or take your robot to an exhibit. What I meant by "supervisor" is some (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I need to look at some items for Joerg, but I'll also look at a small supervisor that integrates the View,Run,Prgm,and On/Off buttons. This hsould be pretty easy and would be a good bit of example code. Cheers, Ralph (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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For the Workshop3D Event I use the following construct, the button handling is from the book "Extreme Mindstorms": : main ( -- ) \ Main Task init \ do main initialize ( ... ) BEGIN ( ... ) BUTTON_SCAN BUTTON_RUN? IF ( ... ) \ Calibrating BEGIN ( ... (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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