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Geoffg

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Posted: 04:59pm 09 Jun 2012

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A new version of MMBasic (ver 3.2C) is available for download from http://geoffg.net/maximite.html#Downloads

This is a minor update that fixes a few bugs and adds two small features:
- Added support for control keys in the EDIT command and the command line editor.
- Added support for I/O pin 7 on the DuinoMite.

The Change Log (included in the update download) details the changes.

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Thanks .
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Posted: 06:51pm 09 Jun 2012

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Geoffg said A new version of MMBasic (ver 3.2C) is available for download from http://geoffg.net/maximite.html#Downloads

This is a minor update that fixes a few bugs and adds two small features:
- Added support for control keys in the EDIT command and the command line editor.
- Added support for I/O pin 7 on the DuinoMite.

The Change Log (included in the update download) details the changes.

Geoff

Geoff just told me that the latest version (3.2C) MMBasic now supports 15 pins on the DuinoMite, and not the 12 that I had advertised, so I have updated all of my product pages to suit.

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Posted: 04:54am 10 Jun 2012

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GeoffG - I made an easy to use Open Office (Free) spreadsheet for the MMBasic DuinoMiteMega GPIO for MMBasic 3.2C If you see any obvious mistakes - let me know.

2012-06-10_145401_MaxiMite_DuinoMiteMega_Input_Output_v3_2_C _R1.zip

BTW ... Can the comports (1-4) be used for other GPIO functions? eg input/output/interrupts

Edited by DuinoMiteMegaAn 2012-06-11

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Posted: 11:49am 10 Jun 2012

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DuinoMiteMegaAn said I made an easy to use Open Office (Free) spreadsheet for the MMBasic DuinoMiteMega GPIO for MMBasic 3.2C If you see any obvious mistakes - let me know.

2012-06-10_145401_MaxiMite_DuinoMiteMega_Input_Output_v3_2_C _R1.zip

Unfortunatly I cannot open this file. Can you save it as a Microsoft Excel (.xls) file?

DuinoMiteMegaAn said Can the comports (1-4) be used for other GPIO functions? eg input/output/interrupts

Yes, except for COM3:, details are in the DuinoMite ReadMe file included in the update.

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Posted: 12:15pm 10 Jun 2012

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Geoffg said
Unfortunatly I cannot open this file. Can you save it as a Microsoft Excel (.xls) file?

Geoff

MS Orifice 2010 handles it OK. I'll see if I can save it as an .xls and put it up here. If not I'll post it as an image.

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Posted: 12:27pm 10 Jun 2012

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Here is the image file 2012-06-10_222702_MaxiMite_DuinoMiteMega_Input_Output_v3_2_C _R1.pdf and here is the .xls 2012-06-10_222733_MaxiMite_DuinoMiteMega_Input_Output_v3_2_C _R1.zip
There was a complaint from excel about loss of features when saved to a compatibility format but I couldn't see the difference.Edited by BobD 2012-06-11

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Posted: 04:24pm 10 Jun 2012

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Hi,

Can somebody else with version 3.2C please test the following

print val("&B101")

or

print val("&HFF")

My MM with 3.2C throws an exception with these and reboots with the "An internal error.. " message.

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Posted: 04:46pm 10 Jun 2012

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Umm, without trying to be smart....

Why would you use that?

A simple:

PRINT &HFF
PRINT &B101

would suffice.

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Edited by BobDevries 2012-06-12

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Bob,

Because I use the VAL function in a line of code which is too involved to use for practical debug purposes. This particular line of code worked fine in all previous versions but is now throwing the error in 3.2C

I posted PRINT VAL("&HFF") as quick way of checking for the error that can be done from the command line.

So, did you humour the seemingly strange ways of another user and try it??

Rgd's
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Posted: 05:04pm 10 Jun 2012

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DuinoMiteMegaAn said I made an easy to use Open Office (Free) spreadsheet for the MMBasic DuinoMiteMega GPIO for MMBasic 3.2C If you see any obvious mistakes - let me know

That is a neat spreadsheet (and colourful).

The only changes that I would suggest are:
- pin 7 supports counting, frequency, period, etc.
- pins 11 & 12 support digital out on the Mini
- pins 7 & 11 to 18 support interrupts

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Posted: 05:14pm 10 Jun 2012

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I can confirm that bug Anthony.

Print val("&HFF") crashes the system.
Print val("1234") works fine.
Print &HFF works fine.

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Posted: 05:23pm 10 Jun 2012

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Glenn,

Thanks for that, I guess it is over to Geoff to have a look.

Rgd's,
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Posted: 06:15pm 10 Jun 2012

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ajkw said print val("&HFF")

My MM with 3.2C throws an exception with these and reboots with the "An internal error.. " message.

This is getting to be a bad habit... every time I make a new release a small bug appears. At least this one was not my fault. Microchip have managed to break the strtol() function in C32 V2.1a (which I recently upgraded to) and that caused the bug.

I have fixed it and loaded the new version up onto my site. It has the same version number (3.2C) but the date of the hex file is 11th June. So, if you have already downloaded 3.2C could you please re download and re flash.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Posted: 01:11am 11 Jun 2012

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The only changes that I would suggest are:
- pin 7 supports counting, frequency, period, etc.
- pins 11 & 12 support digital out on the Mini
- pins 7 & 11 to 18 support interrupts

Geoff

By inspecting the GPIO spreadsheet again ... if a user is using I2C, then the only GPIO pin that could be used for counting, frequency and period would ONLY be pin 7 (software#) on the DuinoMiteMega?

GeoffG .... Is counting, frequency and period a function of hardware or software ?

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Posted: 02:41am 11 Jun 2012

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It is hardware dependent. The PIC32 i/o pin must support an external interrupt.

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