Shareing Objects?

photomankc

I had a similar question before but this involves a twist from that one.· I have in my application a UserInterface main object·that starts a VoltageMonitor object and a Timer object to track the approximate time.· I have a need for the VoltageMonitor object to also pay attention to time.· What I'd like to do is let the monitor use the same timer the UI is using so I don't burn two cogs with timers.· Any pointers to examples of how to code that?· Can I use pointers for that?· An object is just a position in memory so it seems like it should be possible but I have not been able to find a solid example, assuming you can do that.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Timmoore

Depends what the problem is, here are 2 examples

pwm_32_sv2.spin is a variaton of pwm_32_v2.spin that is on obex. If you use it from multiple apps it only creates 1 cog. Its a pasm cog, access to the variables shared with the pasm cog is controlled with a lock.

timer.spin is a timer object. Again access to shared variables is via a lock.

The other objects to look at on obex is serialmirror or the 4 port serial object. serialmirror gives a debug port that can be called from any object. 4 port serial can also be used from multiple objects but only uses 1 cog.

Including a object in multiple objects doesn't affect code size, prop tool handles that but you need to handle cogs and multiple access to variables,

photomankc

Thank you much!· I'll start looking through those to get the idea.