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aaaaaaaargh Newbie  Joined: 18/07/2026 Location: United KingdomPosts: 4 |
Hello everyone! I have just take my first small steps with the picomite. What a fantastic system and what great documentation! As a Basic enthusiast I feel right at home here, the forum looks like a friendly place with loads of useful information. On that subject: How do I print something to a certain screen location. I can't find a "LOCATE row,column" like function. I am using a Pico 2 and Teraterm. I have found a PRINT @(X,Y) command but X and Y have to be specified in pixels, that seems odd for a serial terminal. When using pixel-like coordinates e.g. PRINT @(100,100) "Hello", the text is positioned somewhat away from top/left edge so I'm assuming there is some multiplication factor needed? I'm sure I missed something obvious... Thanks, Arthur |
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thwill Guru  Joined: 16/09/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 4378 |
Hi Arthur, It's one of those gnarly parts of MMBasic, I haven't got H/W in-front of me, but try getting the values of MM.INFO(FONTHEIGHT) and MM.INFO(FONTWIDTH) and using those as multipliers for the font you aren't using  .If you are accessing the PicoMite through a serial console then you can also PRINT the ANSI escape codes to move the terminal cursor. Best wishes, Tom MMBasic for Linux, Game*Mite, CMM2 Welcome Tape, Creaky old text adventures |
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Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 8964 |
Ah... confusion reigns. lol Welcome to the forum, Arthur. :) When you have a serial connection to a Picomite you aren't strictly controlling an ASCII device from an ASCII terminal at all. You are at the command line (console) of a device with full graphics capabilities in its own right. You have to think of it along those lines. When you do it makes sense, you can't specify a character position on such a system as the resolution is naturally in pixels, not characters. The character size is set by the font in use. Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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| aaaaaaaargh Newbie Joined: 18/07/2026 Location: United KingdomPosts: 4 |
Thanks to both of you, it makes sense to me now. I used Const my=MM.Info(FONTHEIGHT) Const mx=MM.Info(FONTWIDTH) For x = 2 To 70 For y = 2 To 20 Print @(x*mx,y*my) "X", Next Next to get characters positioned correctly. So this is to keep it sort of compatible with a graphic screen, I guess. But for now i'll only be using Teraterm so i'm going to use vt100 sequences. I found some nice examples elsewhere in this forum :-) Thanks for the quick response! Edited 2026-07-20 20:57 by aaaaaaaargh |
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| PhenixRising Guru Joined: 07/11/2023 Location: United KingdomPosts: 2000 |
aaaaaaaargh as on the Parallax forum?  Welcome. The PicoMite makes a great front-end for the P2  |
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Martin H. Guru Joined: 04/06/2022 Location: GermanyPosts: 1485 |
Yes, I did implement 3DMonster Maze also for VT100 once. Or Mandelbrot Welcome to the forum Cheers Martin Edited 2026-07-20 22:23 by Martin H. 'no comment |
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| aaaaaaaargh Newbie Joined: 18/07/2026 Location: United KingdomPosts: 4 |
Yes, you caught me ;-) And you, different handle over there? I guess the PicoMite and P2 would be a nice combo, needs more thinking... Edited 2026-07-20 22:34 by aaaaaaaargh |
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| aaaaaaaargh Newbie Joined: 18/07/2026 Location: United KingdomPosts: 4 |
Cool examples! This is going to be fun. |
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| PhenixRising Guru Joined: 07/11/2023 Location: United KingdomPosts: 2000 |
Yeah, I'm Mickster over there but I figured that it was too similar to Mixtel90 for here. I was on the old KISS thread. I have two P2-Edge modules, two KISS modules and the Cluso99 module. I currently have the Edge modules talking to the (awesome) RP2350DIL modules but I am considering switching to the KISS because it is similar format to the RP2350DIL. RP2350DIL I guarantee that you'll get hooked on the PicoMite |
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| fred777 Regular Member  Joined: 01/07/2021 Location: United KingdomPosts: 97 |
Maybe get one of the new P2 sunnyside modules, that would fit the RP2350DIL nicely. And now I know about it, I will have to get an RP2350DIL, I do love a dil/dip board 😋 |
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| PhenixRising Guru Joined: 07/11/2023 Location: United KingdomPosts: 2000 |
It's nice but he lost too many pins. I'm already tight with 58 |
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