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Turbo46

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Again, not really and error but in both manuals the spelling of analogue and analog is used in various places. It can be a bit confusing when searching.

Bill
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Hmmmmpfff .... again.

If you search for "analog" it should find "analogue".

The likelihood that youse guys down there will ever learn to drive on the right side of the road or to discard the multi-century Norman French inspired spelling of colour is virtually nonexistent!

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@Paul_L,

I did hear a rumour once that Mr Webster, when he compiled his dictionary, decided to simplify the English language so to speak. Wish it had have caught on here in Oz.

I got the impression that he did not like the British much.

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I wish he'd carried on instead of doing half a job!

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C'mon youse guys ... you're not supposed to agree with me ... you're supposed to respond that you drive on the correct side ... how the heck are we gonna keep this kerfuffle going if you agree with me?????

I think the British are great. I just wonder why the underground is still operating. It should have evaporated after WWII.

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Please reserve this thread for manual issues so it is easy for Geoff to pick them up without wading through noise.

Geoff:

MM.INFO(FILESIZE file$)Returns the size of ‘file$’ in bytes. Returns -1 if the file is not found

MM.INFO$(MODIFIED file$)Returns the date/time that ‘file$’ was last modified. Returns an empty string if the file is not found
Edited 2020-05-31 22:32 by matherp
 
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Thanks again.  Keep them coming.
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KeepIS

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Don't know if this has been mentioned, but the Circuit in the constructors pack shows the USB A (CON 2) connector with PA12 and PA11 transposed. I'm mucking around in the workshop with a wave board and had to transpose the connections to get the Keyboard to work. IE PA11 is next to the 5v pin. PA12 is next to the ground pin.

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Mike - thanks for the report. The schematic in the construction pack is incorrect, PA11  is next to 5V



Edited 2020-06-02 20:54 by matherp
 
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Please post documentation issues here and not in other threads - otherwise Geoff has no chance to keep on top of it.

Page 30: the definition of the POLYGON command doesn't match the detailed command listing.
Page 74: The POLYGON command can now accept float or integer arrays for the X,Y coordinates

Picked up from other threads:


  Quote  Sorry to be a pain but the construction pack schematic does not show the 10K pullup resistors on the Nunchuk lines to the connector.

Bill


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OPTION MODES UNLOCKED or LOCKED

Error: Unrecognised option.

Release RC44

We are permanently UNLOCKED

Jim
Is this command no longer used?Thanks Jim, I could not see that in the docs, and it's still under options in the user manual, I did download the latest one Geoff posted a few days ago, so maybe I missed an update again, I'll check just in case.

Mike.

Edited 2020-06-03 17:45 by matherp
 
Turbo46

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The construction pack schematic still does not show the 10K pullup resistors on the Nunchuk lines to the connector. The manual mentions that they are available as PINs 43 and 44, maybe that could be shown on the schematic also?

In the manual there are several references to:
  Quote  Refer to the chapter: "Using the I/O pins"

I can't find that chapter. Is it meant to be the External I/O connector section?

Also there is no Electrical Characteristics section to describe the capabilities of the I/O pins, power supply and so on.

Bill
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The pullups are shown on the schematic... however I will agree that they are not obvious:

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Thanks for the references to "Using the I/O pins".  I have removed them and updated the download.


  Quote  Also there is no Electrical Characteristics section to describe the capabilities of the I/O pins, power supply and so on.

Quite right (maybe later).

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GregZone
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Posted: 04:21am 06 Jun 2020
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In reference to the readme.txt in the Software download zip...

I think the following (at the top of the readme.txt):
OPTION RESET
OPTION USBKEYBOARD UK or OPTION USBKEYBOARD USBKEYBOARD

Is meant to say:
OPTION RESET
OPTION USBKEYBOARD UK or OPTION USBKEYBOARD US

Presumably some kind of autocompletion typo sneaked in?
 
KeepIS

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Posted: 05:07am 07 Jun 2020
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Just a small one :

Page 15 of the User Manual.

If the serial console is not required it can be disabled with the command OPTION CONSOLE SCREEN.  This will last for as long as the power is applied and is reset on power up.


However it's also Reset back to Both with a CTRL-C.

Mike.
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TassyJim

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Posted: 11:18pm 08 Jun 2020
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The PULSIN command is missing from the bookmarks.

Jim
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The description for the "FONT" command includes the text
'See the chapter "Basic Drawing Commands" for details...'

which should instead refer to "Basic Graphics"
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vegipete

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Not an error or anything, but the command
"colour &H00FF9F00"
works very nicely and intuitively for setting colour, in this particular case orange. This matches colour formats used on the interwebs.

"colour &HFF9F00" works just as well.

"colour &HFF0000" is RED
"colour &H00FF00" is GREEN
"colour &H0000FF" is BLUE

Perhaps a mention of this in the colour command description and the chapter on Basic Graphics would be helpful?
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GregZone
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I noticed a number of the weblinks in Programming_with_the_Colour_Maximite_2.pdf return 404 errors, due to the period / extra characters on the end of the sentence being included in the URL.

The same applies to some of the weblinks in Colour_Maximite_2_User_Manual.pdf

Specifically, wherever added characters like a period or closing bracket are attached to the end of the URL.

Not sure if this is affecting all PDF viewers, but it certainly is the case when viewing the PDF's either using Adobe Acrobat Reader, or within Chrome or Safari browsers on my iMac.

A couple of examples:

Programming_with_the_Colour_Maximite_2.pdf - Page 11
https://www.c-com.com.au/MMedit.htm.

Needs to have the end of sentence period removed to get working (non 404 link):
https://www.c-com.com.au/MMedit.htm


Programming_with_the_Colour_Maximite_2.pdf - Page 67
http://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/pulse-width-modulation).

Needs to have the end of sentence ")." removed to get working (non 404 link):
http://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/pulse-width-modulation


ie. In all places where there is a web URL link, which is not immediately followed by a space character.

Where there is a space terminating the http address, then the PDF weblink clicks-through correctly (without a 404 error).

So the solution appears to be to simply ensure all http / https URL links are terminated with a space character (not a period etc.)

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Greg
 
KeepIS

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Programming with CMM2

Chap 9 Page 73, Setting options. Should this be Line not Like?


OPTION STATUS ON | OFF Turn on/off the status like at the command prompt
 

Mike
Edited 2020-06-11 11:34 by KeepIS
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KeepIS

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Colour Maximite 2 User Manual MMBasic Ver 5.05.02

The link to the Maximite @ http://geoffg.net/Maximite should have a lowercase M.

Mike
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