This Forum is Dedicated For all The Object Oriented PIC Lovers .......... The concept behind OOPic is straight forward. Use preprogrammed multitasking Objects from a library of highly optimized Objects to do all the work of interacting with the hardware. Then write small scripts in Basic, C, or Java syntax styles to control the Objects. During operation, the Objects run continuously and simultaneously in the background while the scripts run in the foreground telling the objects what to do.

Monday, June 23, 2008

[oopic] Re: Sparkfun LCD Troubles

--- In oopic@yahoogroups.com, "ef721" <ef721@...> wrote:
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>
>
> > As I said earlier, you MIGHT have to actually implement that flow
> > control pin and pull it up (or down) with a 330 ohm resistor. We
had
> > a situation the other day where an object wouldn't work unless an
> > unnecessary IOLine was nevertheless defined.
> >
> > Richard
> >
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> Are you saying that I would have to waste an IO line on flow control
> that I do not need? That sucks. Also, how exactly does flow control
> work, would the flow control have to be high or low for no flow
> control ( meaning it allows strings to be constantly sent)
>
> ,Eric
>

You really need to get a logic probe or scope to do this kind of
work. Something like this: http://tinyurl.com/4pu7km

There are
several inexpensive versions on ebay but this one was "Buy Now".

The following code works in that the IOLine idles high (same as a
real TTL USART) and the bits go low. It is not necessary to define
the flow control which would, I suspect, be an output used only when
the serial port is used for input to throttle the sender.


Dim S As New oSerialL

Sub main()

ooPIC.Delay = 5000

S.IOLineS = 9
S.Operate = 1

Do

S.String = "hello"
ooPIC.Delay = 20

Loop

End Sub


I have not run the signal to a level shifter and on to Hyperterminal
but I'm pretty sure it's correct. Compiler V6 and chip B.2.2+

Richard

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