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palcal

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Posted: 10:15pm 19 Feb 2018

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@ Geoff
I have a friend who has been using the Boat Computer regularly, it is only now that he has tried to change the name "POI 1" etc to another name. When deleting the name it deletes back until you reach the P in POI and then throws an error. I have a clumsy workaround by putting a space before the P in "POI " in line 89 but if you space back one too many it crashes with an error on line 685 "Error: 0 is invalid".
There is no hurry as I know you are busy. It would also be nice if the distance to POI changed to metres below say half a kilometre instead of reading decimals of a Km.
Thanks a million for all you have done.
Paul.

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Posted: 01:23am 20 Feb 2018

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Thanks Paul. Both should be doable.
I will get back to you on it.

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palcal

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Posted: 05:32am 20 Feb 2018

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Thanks Geoff, while I have you, I wanted to run a larger screen and the only board I had was MMX with an SSD1963_4, but when I run the same code that runs on the 28 pin backpack I get an error:

Quote [1089] Function Atan2(y As float, x As float) As float
Error: Invalid identifier

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matherp
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Posted: 07:29am 20 Feb 2018

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Atan2 is a built in function in the MMX. Just delete the function in the boat computer code

palcal

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Posted: 07:43am 20 Feb 2018

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Thanks Peter, I looked in the manual under functions and didn't see it there so I did a search of the MMX manual and it didn't show up.
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Posted: 07:47am 20 Feb 2018

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Oops, I'll update the manual. Sorry

palcal

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Posted: 09:39pm 20 Feb 2018

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@ matherp
OK that problem sorted but there is another line

Quote SetPin Peek(Byte Peek(Word &H9D000090) + 23), INTL, TouchDown

do you know what the address is for the 100 pin MZ chip.
If too much trouble I can put up with the smaller screen.
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Posted: 09:46pm 20 Feb 2018

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Base address on MZ is 0x9d004000

so try this.

SetPin Peek(Byte Peek(Word &H9D004090) + 23), INTL, TouchDown

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palcal

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Posted: 11:17pm 20 Feb 2018

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Thanks Gerry that seems OK but now this.

Quote [126] SetPin Peek(Byte Peek(Word &H9D004090) + 23), INTL, TouchDown
Error: Pin 17 is reserved on startup

If I am going to have to alter a lot of code to get this running I will give it a miss.
Paul.
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With this board I use OPTION TOUCH 19,17Edited by palcal 2018-02-22

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disco4now

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Posted: 02:10am 21 Feb 2018

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You need to replace that whole line with
GUI INTERRUPT TouchDown
as that is how the MM+ and MMX set up the interrupt.

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palcal

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Posted: 04:27am 21 Feb 2018

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OK Thanks got it working OK.
Interestingly my original problem of not being able to delete the 'P' in 'POI'
is not evident when using the SSD1963 screen.
Paul.

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Chopperp

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Posted: 11:35am 11 May 2018

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disco4now said You need to replace that whole line with
GUI INTERRUPT TouchDown
as that is how the MM+ and MMX set up the interrupt.

Amazing what you find by searching previous posts.

Just hooked up my recently build SC +Explore 64 to the GPS output of Geoff's GPS Tracker (SC NOV 2013 which has BTW, been running in my car since I built it back then).

Got it working OK on a much simpler program by Geoff so decided to try the Boat Computer. Ran into the same GUI problems as mentioned in this thread. Many hours of playing around & looking for answers. Found this thread which provided the solution. Thanks.

Now to have a play around with a working GPS / GUI program.
BTW, I hate boats..

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