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Re: Spybotics to RCX message
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Date: 
Thu, 16 Jan 2003 03:06:58 GMT
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Just erased 3 lines of reply now that I've remembered my basic
assembly stuff ... boy it's been a while.

Yes, that sounds like the right thing to do.

Just curious, I haven't installed the Mindstorms SDK since I try to
minimize what all I've installed.  Is there any way to get the LASM
output from a Mindscirpt program by simply running something or do I
really need to do the full install?

On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 16:25:36 GMT, "Mark Riley" <markril@hotmail.com>
wrote:

Hey cool, Mark, this is really going to be useful!

I've noticed that when MindScript generates a call to
the SendRCXMessage subroutine, it always pops the
calling parameters off the stack.  For example, this
MindScript code:

SendRCXMessage(5)

generates this LASM:

push 2,5
calls 37  ;SendRCXMessage
pop 1

You might want to try adding something like the
following line to the end of your routine(s):

asm { 0x01, 1 };  // pop 1

You probably wouldn't notice a nything odd until
the stack underflowed.  I think 80 stack parameters
or so is the limit before there's a problem (i.e. the
task is terminated).

Cheers,

Mark (the other one)

"Mark Ferris" <markdf2001@yahoo.com> wrote:

The following NQC code will define a routine to send a message to the
RCX or Scout:

// Sends an RCX PBMessage to RCX or Scout
// nMessage = 1 - 255
__nolist void SendRCXMessage (const int nMessage)
{
  asm { 0xe3, &nMessage };
  asm { 0x17, 37 };
}


I'm busy making API .nqh files to get access to the ROM subroutines.
So far I have them divided into utility functions (such as the one
above) that do not need any of the ROM defined variables and engine
functions, which do . The engine functions implement the game engine
that the Spybots progam uses.  Lots of useful stuff there.  I have  a
lot more calls already defined, I just have to test them more before
posting them.   I thought I'd just jump in and post this one because I
remember the statement being made at one point that it might not be
possible to send a standard RCX message out from a Spybot.





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Hey cool, Mark, this is really going to be useful! I've noticed that when MindScript generates a call to the SendRCXMessage subroutine, it always pops the calling parameters off the stack. For example, this MindScript code: SendRCXMessage(5) (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)

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