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| matherp Guru  Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 10075 |
SPI CLOSE frees up the pins so you need to SETPIN before each open if you are closing and re-opening SPI. Manual page 140 Edited 2022-08-09 03:46 by matherp |
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| Bleep Guru Joined: 09/01/2022 Location: United KingdomPosts: 579 |
Thanks Peter, I had just found that it seemed to be being caused by the multiple Open and Close calls, I'll look at getting rid of them as I don't think they are necessary on the Pico, because of the 2 SPI busses. Thanks very much for the fix. :-) Regards, Kevin. |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 10075 |
PicoMite V5.07.05b16 https://geoffg.net/Downloads/picomite/PicoMite_Beta.zip Fixes bug in GUI DELETE Fixes bug in passing string function to time$ Fixes bug in OPTION LIST for some displays Revised version of CSub header to cater for compiler change KNOWN issues with Geoff GUI NUMBERBOX ACTIVATE/CANCEL GUI FORMATBOX ACTIVATE/CANCEL both in manual but not in firmware BUG in GUI TEXTBOX ACTIVATE see here for details You can use OPTION LCDPANEL NOCONSOLE in which case only TEXT commands will write to the display (Use OPTION LCDPANEL CONSOLE [font] to restore). Alternatively just open a COM port and Print diagnostics to that. I am not going to implement the MMB4W/CMM2 functionality. All these sorts of extra conditionality slow things down slightly and add complexity to both code and documentation and KISS is more important for the Pico Edited 2022-08-09 22:59 by matherp |
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| Andrew_G Guru Joined: 18/10/2016 Location: AustraliaPosts: 868 |
Hi Peter (all), Thanks for ensuring that my gripe about GUI TEXT ACTIVATE is on the list. Regards, Andrew |
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thwill Guru Joined: 16/09/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 4251 |
Thanks Peter, I'll give it a try the OPTION the next time I am infront of the hardware. I'm not so keen on having to open a COM port when I already have a perfectly good terminal connected over the USB. It's your wheelhouse, and I wouldn't like to comment further before I've had a chance to give it a run out. Best wishes, Tom Edited 2022-08-10 20:15 by thwill MMBasic for Linux, Game*Mite, CMM2 Welcome Tape, Creaky old text adventures |
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| thwill Guru Joined: 16/09/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 4251 |
OK, tested and I can probably do something with it. The main downside being that OPTION LCDPANEL NOCONSOLE seems to clear the VGA display - not asking for a change since I'm not sure how/if I'm going to use it, just making an observation. I've got a new bug for you: > ? Mm.Device$ PicoMiteVGA > ? Mm.Info(Version) 5.070515 > ? Cwd$ A:/ > MkDir "mydir" > ? Mm.Info(FileSize "mydir") -2 > ? Mm.Info(FileSize "/mydir") -2 > ? Mm.Info(FileSize "A:/mydir") -1 > ? Mm.Info(FileSize "A:\mydir") -1 I believe it should be -2 in all cases for an existing directory. I'm using this as the alternative to MM.INFO(EXISTS [FILE|DIR] f$) which would still be nice to have for consistency. Best wishes, Tom MMBasic for Linux, Game*Mite, CMM2 Welcome Tape, Creaky old text adventures |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 10075 |
OK can fix. If you want the exists syntax please write it and I will include. Edited 2022-08-12 18:12 by matherp |
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| thwill Guru Joined: 16/09/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 4251 |
Thank you Peter, you edited your original message before I could respond. Looks odd, on first blush I guess f_stat() is not returning FR_OK given those directory paths ? I look forward to examining the fix on github. Damn you for your perfectly reasonable response  . I've been trying to avoid adding this particular string (building the PicoMite firmware) to my bow, but I can hardly refuse such an offer - there are just a bunch of other things in the TODO list before i get there. Let's hope we don't both live to regret it.Thanks again, Tom Edited 2022-08-12 18:31 by thwill MMBasic for Linux, Game*Mite, CMM2 Welcome Tape, Creaky old text adventures |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 10075 |
PicoMite V5.07.05b17 https://geoffg.net/Downloads/picomite/PicoMite_Beta.zip Max editor clipboard size now 16384 characters (still does not support page up/down in mark mode) Fixes bugs in MM.INFO(filename and MM.INFO(Modified Max number of BLIT buffers now 32 (memory dependent) |
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| thwill Guru Joined: 16/09/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 4251 |
Huh ? has this comment been mangled ? Best wishes, Tom MMBasic for Linux, Game*Mite, CMM2 Welcome Tape, Creaky old text adventures |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 10075 |
Fixes bug in MM.INFO(filesize ... and MM.INFO(Modified ... |
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Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 7531 |
Many, many thanks for the bigger clipboard in particular, Peter. :) Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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| thwill Guru Joined: 16/09/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 4251 |
Thanks Peter, You've fixed the MM.INFO(FileSize ...) bug as reported, but: > ? Mm.Info(FileSize "\") -1 > ? Mm.Info(FileSize "\") -1 > ? Mm.Info(FileSize "/") -1 > ? Mm.Info(FileSize "A:/") -1 > ? Mm.Info(FileSize "A:\") -1 > ? Mm.Info(FileSize "") -1 I think all these should return -2, I've even convinced myself wrt to the last one now c.f. the CMM2 thread. There is no urgency as it probably only matters to me and I can look at it when I add supports for EXISTS ... in a few weeks if/when I manage to clear one of my other in-progress tasks. Best wishes, Tom MMBasic for Linux, Game*Mite, CMM2 Welcome Tape, Creaky old text adventures |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 10075 |
In all these cases fstat does not return FR_OK. The last one only works in CMM2 because it is treated as a special case by the firmware |
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| Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 4863 |
@Peter, As of recent, the BLIT command was renamed SPRITE. I however find it confusing. Isn't it better to leave it with BLIT ? Look at this piece of code: Do Pause 0.26 x=Min(500,x+3) p=Peek(word ff) n=Min(Max((640-p)/22,0),9) 'convert to index 'n=(p<571)+(p<522)+(p<480)+(p<500)+(p<632)+(p<445)+(p<600)+(p<462)+(p<545) Sprite 0,40+n,x,y,3,3 Loop Until p>u And Timer>60 It is just copying a piece of video memory to another location. There seems no relation with sprites whatsoever. Just a block copy. The confusion is also in the editing. When you have a program that uses BLIT, it is converted to SPRITE. But when you comment the line, it is BLIT again. As a second item I would like to discuss the tranparency. In sprites, the color 0 (black) is transparent. Is there any way to use hard black in sprites ? In the above example I used the BLIT copy command so I did not have to use a sprite copy. The BLIT copies black as black. The sprite would use transparent. I know my application is not using sprites for games, it is simply creating a solid picture from data. And for this I cannot use the sprites as is (unless I am missing something). P.S. above runs in mode 1. Volhout Edited 2022-08-14 19:23 by Volhout PicomiteVGA PETSCII ROBOTS |
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| thwill Guru Joined: 16/09/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 4251 |
I'm not sure I understand your point here Peter. Is it that this particular implementation of fstat() should define the be-all and end-all of what a directory is in MMBasic ? Anyway for the moment I will cut my own furrow and if and when I have some firmware code to share I will pass it along for your consideration. Best wishes, Tom MMBasic for Linux, Game*Mite, CMM2 Welcome Tape, Creaky old text adventures |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 10075 |
The code is looking for the FILESIZE nothing else. A return of -2 is used if FSTAT happens to say it is a directory rather than -1 which says not found. If it doesn't work for specific directory syntax that could never define a filename that seems entirely reasonable. It never pretended to be an analogue for EXISTS DIR. Edited 2022-08-14 20:51 by matherp |
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| thwill Guru Joined: 16/09/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 4251 |
That's kind of the point ... for a significant time in the later development of the CMM2 it WAS the way of determining if a directory existed ... and then you got sufficiently hastled by my finding issues (sorry!) that you introduced EXISTS DIR ... but not on PicoMite. Anyway, leave it with me, and if you don't like what I produce for the PicoMite you can throw it back in my face  - if I never actually do anything about it then draw your own conclusions.EDIT: just in case anyone (beyond Peter) is wondering why I am being such an arse about this it's because in the development of MMB4L and my 'sptools' library I have written an ever growing set of automated unit-tests for the firmware that will run on CMM2, MMB4W and MMB4L (and eventually PicoMite - though I may have to have a *special* firmware to support running them) and these (a) exercise many of the edge-conditions which most MMBasic developers will only encounter once in a blue moon, and (b) pick-up the differences between the different MMBasic dialects. Best wishes (seriously), Tom Edited 2022-08-14 21:06 by thwill MMBasic for Linux, Game*Mite, CMM2 Welcome Tape, Creaky old text adventures |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 10075 |
Volhout BLIT and SPRITE use the same command and I've run out of command slots to allow both. The code can use either but the token is the same and therefore LIST will show SPRITE On your second point, The documentation of BLIT WRITE is out-of-date relative to the latest firmware. See the CMM2 manual for the correct syntax and note how specifying a 0 as the last parameter will make SPRITE WRITE output the "transparent" pixels Edited 2022-08-14 21:15 by matherp |
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| fred777 Regular Member  Joined: 01/07/2021 Location: United KingdomPosts: 57 |
Hello, I'm testing PicoMite V5.07.05b17 (non vga) - in the Editor F1 now saves and runs the current programme just like F2, it should't do that, right? |
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