Sending Numbers Through The Terminal

[picaxester]

How do you send numbers out through terminal program?
It just sends the ASCII out.
Thanks


eric

 

[boriz]

place a '#' before the variable.

#b0 instead of b0.

 

[picaxester]

I'm sending it from my computer to the PICAXE, and I tried that.
I tried put a bunch of different things but it always sends out ASCII.

 

[demonicpicaxeguy]

can you post you code?

 

[hippy]

The Programming Editor Terminal does indeed only send ASCII out, but there are alternatives ...

http://www.rev-ed.co.uk/picaxe/forum/topic.asp?topic_id=7221

 

[picaxester]

Cool! Thanks everyone and thanks for the program hippy, it works great

 

[picaxester]

I opened two of the terminal programs at once and I got an error, now none of them will work.
They will show up in the taskbar but it won't pop up.
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w95/ghillieguy23/terminal.jpg
I've tried right clicking on it and hitting restore, move, size and minimize.
I used cclearer, that did nothing.
Thanks.

 

[papaof2]

ctrl-alt-delete and kill the processes associated with the terminal programs.

John

 

[picaxester]

I did that, but when ever I try to start the program it does the same thing.
I have rebooted too, but still no luck.

 

[hippy]

I've tried on 98SE and XP Pro SP2 and cannot recreate the problem. The second instance gives an error "Serial Port Not Available" because it tries to open the same as the first instance, but works okay after that.

I'll need some more details of what the actual error message given is, which version of the program you're running ( Help->About ) and OS details to investigate further.

If you are confident using RegEdit ( backup your system first, blah, blah ), you can try deleting the registry tree at -

\\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings\AiTerm

Edited by - hippy on 27/06/2007 01:02:23

 

[picaxester]

That got it, thanks!
Oh, and I think that I might have had the PICAXE terminal open when it crashed.
And I'm running XP.
Thanks again.

 

[hippy]

No joy at finding any obvious mistakes, but at least we know deleting Registry settings can fix it and exporting the setting before doing so may point to the problem if it happens again. The best I can think is it got confused and moved the window off the screen, so it was there but not visible.

I'll admit I get the occasional BSOD under 98SE using comms ( in VXD VCOMM, and particularly after attempting to open an already open port ) so I'm not convinced VB / MSCOMM32 / 98SE is that perfect, but I don't think that's the problem here.

Anyway, new version released ( <A href='http://homepage.ntlworld.com/the.happy.hippy/picaxe/aiterm.zip?2007-06-27' Target=_Blank>External Web Link</a> ) which has much better support for multiple instances and a few minor buggettes removed. Keep a renamed copy of the previous download in case I've added more bugs than removed

Edited by - hippy on 27/06/2007 04:12:11

 

[picaxester]

Cool, thanks