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Geoffg Guru  Joined: 06/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 3165 |
Hello all beta testers, A new beta (B23) for both the standard Micromite (MX170) and the Micromite Plus (MX470) is ready for download from: http://geoffg.net/Downloads/Micromite/Micromite_4.7_Beta.zip Both the MX170 and MX470 versions now use the same code base. This means that I can release both versions at the same time and both will be at the same version number. It also means that a bug fixed in one will be automatically fixed in the other  , the downside is that a bug found in one is probably in both 
Other changes in this version are: - Fixed the issue "Error: Pin xx is in use" for both the IR and DISTANCE command. - The CFunction support has been improved to allow LCD Drivers to be loaded as CFunctions. However, this will cause some CFunctions previously created by Peter (matherp) to crash with a MIPS exception - Peter plans to issue new versions that will work with this beta. - For both the MX170 Micromite (MX170) and Micromite Plus (MX470) versions the editor output can be colour coded. The command is OPTION COLOURCODE ON - see page 30 of the "Micromite Manual" for the details. - For the SSD1963 controller chip select (CS) is no longer required and should be connected to ground. The manual has been updated to reflect this. Note that the old CS pin (pin 22) on the 64-pin Micromite Plus will still be unavailable whenever MMBasic is configured for the SSD1963. This will be corrected in the next beta version. - The large number only font has been renamed font #1 and the other fonts have been moved up. See page 17 of the "Micromite Advanced Features" manual for the new font numbers. This was done so that the same fonts will be on the same font numbers on both the standard MM and the MM+. - A number of small changes have been made to both the standard and advanced manual so if something fails to work check the manual to see if it has changed. BTW I am still debating if the manuals should be split the way they are or combined into one huge (130 page) manual. Don't forget that the log of reported bugs and suggestions can always be download from: http://geoffg.net/Downloads/Micromite/MMPlusIssues.txt. I will be active on this forum while I am away and I will update this list as issues are found and reported. However it will be late August - early Sept before I can act on them. Geoff Geoff Graham - http://geoffg.net |
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| Chris Roper Senior Member  Joined: 19/05/2015 Location: South AfricaPosts: 280 |
Thanks Geoff, I am pleased to see that the 170 is getting the same love as the MM+ and am particularly keen to try out the colour coded editor. I have always prefer working with the built in editor and that will be a great improvement. I have to join the family for Sunday Lunch so can only re-flash my devices this afternoon, but thanks for giving me something more exciting to do to fill the void left by the cancelling of German Grand Prix. Cheers, And thanks for all your hard work Chris http://caroper.blogspot.com/ |
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| Chris Roper Senior Member Joined: 19/05/2015 Location: South AfricaPosts: 280 |
I installed 4.7B23 onto the PIC32MX170 without issue but I did find that I had to change the settings in Tera Term in order to use coulorcode on. By default I had White Text on a Black background, to switch the command in teraterm is: Setup-->Window... Under the Color heading click Reverse The Documentation only shows how to do it in Putty so the above may help other Tera Term users. Now to get back to the fun.... Cheers Chris http://caroper.blogspot.com/ |
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| ajkw Senior Member Joined: 29/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 290 |
RE OPTION COLOURCODE ON I have a similar issue with Putty on Linux, ANSI Black text on a black background. Some fiddling required, liking the colours otherwise 
EDIT ADD: Yes the manual does say, I my case I changed the ANSI Black colour value to white and all is visable. Yellow is ok too. I prefer a black background. Cheers, Anthony. |
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CircuitGizmos Guru Joined: 08/09/2011 Location: United StatesPosts: 1421 |
Phenomenal! Micromites and Maximites! - Beginning Maximite |
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TassyJim Guru Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5923 |
While adding colour support to MMEdit's terminal, I discovered a bug/feature. With COLOURCODE OFF new line is 0D 0A 61 73 74 65 1B 5B 4B 1B 5B 31 3B 31 48 1B 5B 31 aste.[K.[1;1H.[1 3B 31 48 1B 5B 4B 0D 0A 1B 5B 4B 0D 0A 1B 5B 4B ;1H.[K...[K...[K 0D 0A 1B 5B 4B 0D 0A 1B 5B 4B 0D 0A 1B 5B 4B 0D ...[K...[K...[K. 0A 1B 5B 4B 0D 0A 1B 5B 4B 0D 0A 1B 5B 4B 0D 0A ..[K...[K...[K.. 1B 5B 4B 0D 0A 1B 5B 4B 0D 0A 1B 5B 4B 0D 0A 1B .[K...[K...[K... 5B 4B 0D 0A 1B 5B 4B 0D 0A 1B 5B 4B 0D 0A 1B 5B [K...[K...[K...[ 4B 0D 0A 1B 5B 4B 0D 0A 1B 5B 4B 0D 0A 1B 5B 4B K...[K...[K...[K 0D 0A 1B 5B 4B 0D 0A 1B 5B 4B 0D 0A 1B 5B 4B 0D ...[K...[K...[K. 0A 1B 5B 31 3B 31 48 1B 5B 32 34 3B 35 36 48 4C ..[1;1H.[24;56HL 6E 3A 20 31 20 20 43 6F 6C 3A 20 31 20 20 20 20 n: 1 Col: 1 With COLOURCODE ON new line is 0D 0A 0D 6D 0D 0A 0D 1B 5B 4B 1B 5B 33 30 6D 0D 0A 0D 1B m....[K.[30m.... 5B 4B 1B 5B 33 30 6D 0D 0A 0D 1B 5B 4B 1B 5B 33 [K.[30m....[K.[3 30 6D 0D 0A 0D 1B 5B 4B 1B 5B 33 30 6D 0D 0A 0D 0m....[K.[30m... 1B 5B 4B 1B 5B 33 30 6D 0D 0A 0D 1B 5B 4B 1B 5B .[K.[30m....[K.[ 33 30 6D 0D 0A 0D 1B 5B 4B 1B 5B 33 30 6D 0D 0A 30m....[K.[30m.. 0D 1B 5B 4B 1B 5B 33 30 6D 0D 0A 0D 1B 5B 4B 1B ..[K.[30m....[K. 5B 33 30 6D 0D 0A 0D 1B 5B 4B 1B 5B 33 30 6D 0D [30m....[K.[30m. 0A 0D 1B 5B 4B 1B 5B 33 30 6D 0D 0A 0D 1B 5B 4B ...[K.[30m....[K 1B 5B 33 30 6D 0D 0A 0D 1B 5B 4B 1B 5B 33 30 6D .[30m....[K.[30m 0D 0A 0D 1B 5B 4B 1B 5B 33 30 6D 0D 0A 0D 1B 5B ....[K.[30m....[ Tested with beta23 on a '170 It doesn't cause any problems with TeraTerm but I am not sure about other editors. MMEdit will be fixed in the next release but I will say (again) that TeraTerm is a much better terminal and colour will make that even more so. Jim VK7JH MMedit MMBasic Help |
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Grogster Admin Group  Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9075 |
Text display does not want to work for me on an SPI screen, ONCE YOU TRY TO CHANGE THE FONT: 
Note that text is fine with the first line of code @ 0,50, but as soon as you try to alter the font scale or select another font, then subsequent text commands produce no output at all. Cls does not fix the problem. Text colour selection does not work either from this point on(although it is fine UNTIL you issue a FONT command). EDIT: This is on the 170 chip - I have not yet tried this on the 470. EDIT: Font 2 works OK, but Font 1 does not, so it only seems to affect Font 1..... Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 8601 |
Grogster Font 1 on both the MX170 and MX470 is now the 32x50 numbers only font. Font 2 on the MX170 is the only font with a full character set. Fonts 3-6 on the MX470 are also full fonts but not available on the MX170. This is a change from earlier betas so that the same font (1 & 2) has the same number on both chips. Font 1 will output the space character for any none number. |
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| Grogster Admin Group Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9075 |
Ahhhhhh - I understand.
Missed that change in the latest manual revision.... 
Touch(x) and touch(y) are not giving any results other then -1 when the panel is NOT being touched. As soon as you touch anywhere, the function never returns with an numbers at all. Remove your finger/stylus, and the function returns -1. 
Am I doing something else wrong here? To clarify: if you run this simple loop in the image, -1's start appearing. I would expect that, as the panel is not being touched. As soon as you touch the panel - anywhere - the -1's STOP coming, but there are no other numbers to represent the co-ordinates of the touch no matter what. Touching the panel has the effect of pausing the loop output for the duration of the touch. Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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| TassyJim Guru Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5923 |
Touch is working OK here on a MX170. . ' OPTION LCDPANEL ILI9341, RP, 4,5,6
' OPTION TOUCH 7,2 ' GUI CALIBRATE OPTION EXPLICIT CONST DBlue = RGB(0, 0, 128) ' A dark blue colour COLOUR RGB(GREEN), RGB(BLACK) FONT 2, 3 cls BOX 0, 0, MM.HRes-1, MM.VRes/2, 3, RGB(RED), DBlue main: DO TEXT MM.HRes/2, MM.VRes/4, left$(TIME$,5), CM, 1, 1, RGB(CYAN), DBlue TEXT MM.HRes/2, MM.VRes*3/4, DATE$, CM IF TOUCH(X) <> -1 THEN ouch LOOP end sub ouch local tx,ty tx=TOUCH(X) ty=TOUCH(Y) print tx,ty box 0,280,239,39,1,rgb(black),rgb(black) text 10,280,str$(tx) text 120,280,str$(ty) pause 100 end sub Jim VK7JH MMedit MMBasic Help |
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| Grogster Admin Group Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9075 |
Hi Jim.
Just tried that code of yours, and I get a nice blue clock with red border and green date below, but the clock does not tick, and touching the panel does nothing. QUESTION: Does the GUI CALIBRATE TOUCH HAVE to complete successfully before these functions will work? No matter what I do, the touch calibration fails. I can touch the targets as part of the calibration and that works fine, but the MM forever reports that calibration failed. Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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| TassyJim Guru Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5923 |
Clock doesn't appear to tick because the seconds aren't displayed... If the calibrate doesn't complete I think you have a problem. Can you do a GUI TEST TOUCH? I had problems initially but it was my error - I had the TOUCH T_CS pin, T_IRQ pin back to front. The Touch instructions appeared on the screen for a few seconds and then disappeared. Jim VK7JH MMedit MMBasic Help |
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| Geoffg Guru Joined: 06/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 3165 |
Yes, you can use touch even if the calibration produced a warning. The firmware does a check and if the error is greater than 8 pixels it will complain but it will still try to work. Geoff Graham - http://geoffg.net |
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palcal Guru Joined: 12/10/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1805 |
@ Grogster Probably a silly question but are you using a stylus and touching the targets accurately. Paul. "It is better to be ignorant and ask a stupid question than to be plain Stupid and not ask at all" |
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| Grogster Admin Group Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9075 |
@ Jim - GUI TEST TOUCH results in no display at all - blank screen. This is in direct conflict with my 1963 parallel display on the MM+, which worked a treat. OPTION TOUCH 15,17 is the command used to setup the touch, pin15 is T_CS on the display, and pin17 is T_IRQ on the display. @ Geoff - Even with the warning in that accuracy is >8 pixels out, could that prevent the touch from working? @ palcal - using finger. I don't have a stylus yet, but have a couple coming. The screen I am trying to use is this one here on eBay, and would seem to be compatible. Touch controller is XPT2046 which is most common, and used on just about all LCD modules from small to big for the touch. EDIT: %$@#!%$%$*(^^%!%%$!!! My mistake everyone - all for the sake of one stupid wire! I had misconnected the T_CLK line to one-pin away from where it should have been, so the touch side of things was never getting a clock line. Curses!  
All working now - funny how you need to wire up correctly for things to work..... Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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kiiid Guru Joined: 11/05/2013 Location: United KingdomPosts: 671 |
The universal HEX is a great achievement
Some ideas from me for the future: I wonder would it be feasible to consider transparent to the user built-in capabilities for RAM expansion by using external SPI RAM chips? Also this is something that we discussed long time ago and I even had an early attempt doing this with the maximite. How about executing statements in parallel? And the last thing: how about some built in capabilities for cloning and serialisation in case a program needs to be multiplied in a thousand devices, so the software generate a ready for upload hex file on to the SD card. http://rittle.org -------------- |
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| CircuitGizmos Guru Joined: 08/09/2011 Location: United StatesPosts: 1421 |
I just updated a 470 board to beta23. When I type: OPTION LCDPANEL ILI9341, RL, 13, 12, 11 I never get the prompt back. Is this happening for anyone else? Micromites and Maximites! - Beginning Maximite |
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| CircuitGizmos Guru Joined: 08/09/2011 Location: United StatesPosts: 1421 |
Ugh. I wasn't typing "ILI9341" in CAPS. Good now. Micromites and Maximites! - Beginning Maximite |
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| Chris Roper Senior Member Joined: 19/05/2015 Location: South AfricaPosts: 280 |
Minor issue with OPTION COLOURCODE ON and the MX170 When in Mark Mode it is difficult to distinguish selected text from normal text. Colour text reverts to Black but Black text is left unmarked. The differance is so subtle that it is easy to miss what is selected. Would it be possible to have the selected block change colour, if inverting is no longer possible? Cheers Chris http://caroper.blogspot.com/ |
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bigmik Guru Joined: 20/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2870 |
Hi All, Silly question... If we now have a `universal HEX' why are there 2 HEX files in the distribution? Also I found the gauge/meter demo's get corrupted due to changes in the FONT command.. So these will need to be modified. Mick Mick's uMite Stuff can be found >>> HERE (Kindly hosted by Dontronics) <<< |
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