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Emady
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Joined: 02/02/2016
Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: 11:58pm 23 Mar 2016

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Hi,

I was wondering if someone can help. I've just finished my MM+ with a 7" LCD and I have configured it to be used standalone with an external keyboard.

I am trying to type in the example pump control programmed from the manual but some of the lines are too long and exceed the 60 or so character width set by the editor. How can I break the line in MMBasic so I can overcome this problem please?

Thanks,
Elia

Zonker

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Joined: 18/08/2012
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Posted: 12:50am 24 Mar 2016

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Hello Emady and welcome to the Forum..!

If you get about half the line typed in, just do a <cr> to get to the next line and finish typing the rest of the line. Then, go back up to to the last line and delete the <cr> and that should connect it back into a single line that is now longer that the LCD screen can display, but it's in there. Should work...

But it's easier to not use the LCD display for editing and use the USB port and Teraterm or the MMedit program to enter the program. If using Teraterm, you can setup the options to say "option display 36,100". This sets up the internal editor to 36 lines by 100 columns so the program lines will fit. You could also use Notepad to enter the program and then using the Xmodem transfer function, load the program into the MM+ flash memory... Read the section in the manual about the editor... I assume you are using the ver5.1 firmware for the MM+...

Hope this helps...

Emady
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Posted: 02:32am 24 Mar 2016

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Hi Zonker,

Thanks a lot, that worked like a charm!

I will try using Teraterm but I wanted to try out the MM+ as a standalone computer.

Yes I am using 5.1 firmware

EliaEdited by Emady 2016-03-25

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