How to display an integer variable on TV

ElectricAye

Hi,
I've been using the TV_Text object to debug some code, and I've got it to work for outputting a decimal temperature, but I can't seem to find the right function for outputting an integer. There's next to no comments on the TV_Text object, so I'm lost. Can somebody give me a clue how to take a variable that is full of counted events, Frequency1, and get it to display as an integer?

thanks,
Mark

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Mike Green

Generally, all of the display objects, whether for TV or VGA or LCDs or even for serial I/O, provide a DEC method which takes an integer argument and converts it to an equivalent sequence of decimal digit characters and ships it to the involved device. Similarly, there's usually a HEX method and sometimes a BIN method which convert the integer to hexadecimal digits or binary digits with a digit count specified. Some I/O objects have a fixed width decimal conversion method, but most only provide the variable width method.

ElectricAye

Thanks, Mike,
I see that there is a DEC method in TV_TEXT. I plugged my variable into it like this

Debug.Dec(Frequency1)

but the compiler said it was looking for an expression term and highlighted my variable.

Any reason it would do that?

Mark

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ElectricAye

Oops, I found the problem. I had not yet declared that variable in the VAR statement.

Thanks Mike!

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