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Geoffg Guru  Joined: 06/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 3292 |
It has been a long time coming but I have a new Beta version of MMBasic for the Micromite and DOS/Windows. You can download it from: http://geoffg.net/micromite.html#Downloads In it I have fixed all the bugs that I know about and added some new features: - Programs are stored more efficiently in flash resulting in a 5% to 10% reduction in the program memory required for any given program. - AUTOSAVE and XMODEM can crunch an incoming program (similar to MMEdit) to strip out comments, unnecessary spaces, etc. - For the MM+ Added the ARC command for drawing arcs and Peter Mather's STR2BIN() and BIN2STR$() functions. The big new feature for the MM+ is the GUI FORMATBOX control which will allow the user to enter formatted data such as dates, time, latitude, etc. The user is guided to enter the data in a fixed format. For example, you can specify that the user must enter the date as dd/mm/yy or time as hh:mm AM/PM. This can be easily extended so if you have a specific format that needs supporting let me know. As before, please give this a run and if you find any issues post them to this thread. Geoff Geoff Graham - http://geoffg.net |
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CaptainBoing Guru Joined: 07/09/2016 Location: United KingdomPosts: 2170 |
awww... and the wife wanted to pick out furniture this weekend too  I like the inline crunch... I have got pretty bad on comments in the past few years because I am mindful of 60K getting used up really quickly with reams of guff. Thanks Geoff (and Peter) |
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| viscomjim Guru Joined: 08/01/2014 Location: United StatesPosts: 925 |
Hi Geoff!!! Any news on the varsave, autorun issue? I am not complaning, just have a real weird situation where this is rearing its head once in a while. Other than that, your efforts on mmbasic is nothing short of amazing!!!! |
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| Geoffg Guru Joined: 06/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 3292 |
This bug should be fixed in this beta version - let me know if you still have trouble. There were actually two bugs associated with VAR SAVE/RESTORE. One was that on a newly flashed chip the VAR SAVE memory area was not properly initialised and the second was that AUTOSAVE and XMODEM did not clear the VAR SAVE memory and that could cause trouble for the new program if it used VAR RESTORE. You could have been stumbling over one or both of these bugs (now fixed). Geoff Geoff Graham - http://geoffg.net |
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Turbo46 Guru Joined: 24/12/2017 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1642 |
Thanks Geoff, That's quite a big list of bug fixes and enhancements. I can see that you have been busy and I hate to ask (but I will anyway) - is there any news on MMBasic V5 for the Maximite? Bill Keep safe. Live long and prosper. |
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| CaptainBoing Guru Joined: 07/09/2016 Location: United KingdomPosts: 2170 |
Can I get this straight? So when I upload a new prog (using AUTOSAVE), variables stored in flash are wiped? h |
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| Geoffg Guru Joined: 06/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 3292 |
Yes, you are correct. NEW, AUTOSAVE and XMODEM RECEIVE will automatically clear any saved variables. EDIT will not - this is because it is assumed that the edit is not changing the program. Geoff Graham - http://geoffg.net |
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| lizby Guru Joined: 17/05/2016 Location: United StatesPosts: 3378 |
Hmmm ... perhaps this question is for Peter--does XMODEM RECEIVE "file" clear saved variables? PicoMite, Armmite F4, SensorKits, MMBasic Hardware, Games, etc. on fruitoftheshed |
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| Geoffg Guru Joined: 06/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 3292 |
No, it does not. The reason for clearing the saved variables is that most times the variables saved in one program will be incompatible with the new program. EDIT does not clear them because it is assumed that you would be not entering a completely new program. XMODEM RECEIVE file$ does not clear them because you are not loading a new program. Geoff Graham - http://geoffg.net |
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| CaptainBoing Guru Joined: 07/09/2016 Location: United KingdomPosts: 2170 |
OK. looks like I am sticking with 5.04.08 on some projects then. I have config data stored in the flash that is specific to the modules and one time settable - dozens of identical units that all get configured at first run. don't fancy setting it all up again for a tweak of the code... that is a non starter. Must say, that setting aside any technical reasons, that is a bit of an odd assumption to make that the data can be junked if it gets new code, which might only be a minor tweak. No matter, it's not like I am stuck, 5.04.08 is rock solid h |
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| Geoffg Guru Joined: 06/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 3292 |
That is a pity. The problem is that I tracked down a lot of the VAR RESTORE errors to the new program clashing with the saved variables from the previous program. It is not feasible for MMBasic to analyse if the new program is just a tweak so I guess that we are stuck with it. Geoff Geoff Graham - http://geoffg.net |
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| Geoffg Guru Joined: 06/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 3292 |
I have updated the MM+ Beta version to Beta 4. You can download it from the same place: http://geoffg.net/micromite.html#Downloads The only change is a small change to RTC SETTIME so that it will also accept a string in the format dd/mm/yy hh:mm. This means the date/time could be entered by the user using a GUI FORMATBOX with the DATETIME2 format and with one command the program could then set the time in the RTC. This short program demonstrates how easy it is to implement this feature: CLS : FONT 4 GUI INTERRUPT IntDown, IntUp GUI FORMATBOX #1, DATETIME2, 200, 150, 300, 50 DO ' the main program loop goes here LOOP SUB IntDown ' any touch down stuff END SUB SUB IntUp IF TOUCH(LASTREF) = 1 THEN RTC SETTIME CTRLVAL(#1) ' any other touch up code END SUB Geoff Geoff Graham - http://geoffg.net |
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| flip Senior Member  Joined: 18/07/2016 Location: AustraliaPosts: 114 |
Hi Geoff, Looking good, I've flashed Explore64 uM+ and it works fine. 1. I have tried CPU 5 & CPU 10 and it seems to lock up (NOTE: seems to be existing problem - maybe I missed something in the instructions) even trying to embed the speed change locks up: CPU 10:a=23:CPU 100 2. Just one problem with the new DOS version when passing a basic file as a parameter, the message Error: Expected a string It freezes for a couple of seconds then returns to the DOS prompt. Suspect it's to do with changes with LOAD & RUN. Tried with and without quotes, i.e. C:\> DOS_MMBasic_V5.05.02_Beta_3.exe file.bas C:\> DOS_MMBasic_V5.05.02_Beta_3.exe "file.bas" Also the LOAD "file.bas",R doesn't seem to Run (loads OK) (again in the DOS version) Not a showstopper as just need to Run [Edit 2] Probably all tied in, but Load doesn't seem to parse the path\file..see following ..first statement fails, but the rest work fine: > load "C:\Users\phil\Apps\MMBasic\DEV\uMiteController\uMslave1.bas" Error: No such file or directory > chdir "C:\Users\phil\Apps\MMBasic\DEV\uMiteController" > load "uMslave1.bas" > run Other than that looks good - especially considering the number of versions and amount of functionality you deal with - really good thanks! Regards Phil (Edit just renamed exe file - makes no difference) |
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disco4now Guru Joined: 18/12/2014 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1003 |
I have a program running on MM (28 Pin) Beta-3 and it changes between CPU 40 and CPU 5 and back with no problems. You do need to be careful with CPU 5 and CPU 10 that you don't attempt any SPI (LCD,TOUCH) or TEMPR stuff without first increasing the speed. So the MM version seems to be good for this. Latest F4 Latest H7 FotS |
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| flip Senior Member Joined: 18/07/2016 Location: AustraliaPosts: 114 |
Thanks for that confirmation disco4now I don't have screen connected, but maybe comms between my slow Windows10 Pendo and the usb connection / handshaking or something... But then again I am using Explore64 with it's inbuilt USB connection so would be interested if anyone could replicate that. (also sorry this problem possibly should have been in a separate thread) Interestingly (and it's good that it does it), when I try and access SD card with CPU speed 20MHz, it gives an error something like accessing SD Card requires 40MHz or greater. Regards Phil |
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| Geoffg Guru Joined: 06/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 3292 |
I have updated the MM+ Beta version to Beta 5. You can download it from the same place: http://geoffg.net/micromite.html#Downloads The only change is to the built in editor. If you are using it with Tera Term it is possible to position the cursor in the Micromite's editor by left clicking your PC's mouse in the Tera Term window. This relies on a feature of Tera Term which reports mouse clicks as an escape code which MMBasic then uses to position the cursor. Other mouse features (scrolling, marking, copy, paste, etc) are not supported. Big thanks to Robert Rozee for showing how this could be done. flip: I still have not got around to investigating your report of problems with the Windows/DOS version. Will do that soon. Geoff Geoff Graham - http://geoffg.net |
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TassyJim Guru Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 6283 |
The mouse feature does NOT work in MMEdit but it doesn't cause any problems either. I might add it in the future. Jim VK7JH MMedit |
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| robert.rozee Guru Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 2442 |
cursor positioning with mouse left-click also works perfectly with GFXterm. within GFXterm mouse wheel movement is mapped to generate cursor up/down escape sequences, so the mouse wheel also works. i've spent the last day trying to figure out how to make TeraTerm map the mouse wheel to cursor up/down, without success. cheers, rob :-) |
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| Geoffg Guru Joined: 06/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 3292 |
TassyJim discovered that the escape codes used by MMBasic to turn on/off cursor reporting in Tera Term interfered with the ASCII Video Terminal project. So I needed to make a small change to avoid this issue. We now have Beta 6 which you can download it from the same place: http://geoffg.net/micromite.html#Downloads Note that this cursor positioning works with both the MM MKII and MM+ (my previous post was confusing on this point). Geoff Geoff Graham - http://geoffg.net |
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| lizby Guru Joined: 17/05/2016 Location: United StatesPosts: 3378 |
If starting the new MMBasic in dos with, for instance (renamed to mmbasic.exe): mmbasic pgm.bas I get "Error: Expected a string", and a return to the DOS prompt. If I start with 'mmbasic' and 'LOAD "pgm.bas"' and 'run', it works. [Oops, I just now noted that flip also pointed out this behavior.) PicoMite, Armmite F4, SensorKits, MMBasic Hardware, Games, etc. on fruitoftheshed |
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