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In lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, Tom Heverly writes:
> I'm using robolab 1.5 for a school project, and i'm encountering some
> difficulty. I think i'm a pretty profiencent programmer if i think
> abotu it long enough, but right now i'm baffeled. I'm pretty sure the
> program is crashing in the RCX, so maybe it is a RoboLab bug, or maybe
> somehting in the RCX brick.
>
> I've been developing this program with baby steps, workign one sub
> routine at a time, and after geting it to work like I want, I add some
> more. In one branch of the program (backing away from a wall, turning
> and proceeding). I had him back up for a time, turn for a time,
> proceed forward for a time, then continue in it's program. that
> worked fine, but I dont like using timers more than I have to, so i
> traded the last timer for a button, and when I downloaded it to the
> RCX, the program woud do about 4 of the 20 steps in the program and
> then it woud shut itself down leaving the motors running. I know it
> shut down becuase the walking man walked no more. Infact, it shuts
> down so fast, you can't see him in walk mode at all. I figured out
> how far the program went by putting a musical note in the prg between
> the steps. and found that the program was gettign to a container fork
> and stopping. This kinda peeved me because the program worked just
> fine before, I only changed one icon. so I chaned the button icon to
> a button fork and used a jump and a land to make the fork work just
> like a button icon. this worked, and while it used a few more Icons,
> i let it go, and continued with the program. I tried to use another
> container fork later in the program, and the program stopped again at
> the first container fork. again it shut down the RCX and left the
> motors running.
>
> Has anyone run into this kind of problem in the past? is there a fix
> for it? is there a limit to the number of icons or steps you can have
> in a program?
>
> I've been programming in robolab for a few months now, and I've never
> run into this problem before.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks alot
>
> Tom Heverly
There are some minor bugs in Robolab 1.5, so I always use version 2.01 or
higher. If you email me the program, I would be happy to play with it.
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