Please help me out!

Hugh

Hi Guys,

Its late. I'm tired. Please help me out!

I have a Long named AnsaA, which will have a value between 1 and 60.

I want to draw a chain of hyphens on an LCD screen to represent the value of AnsaA, fifteen hyphens being the maximum. The current code:

repeat ((AnsaA*15)/60) 
  LCD.str(string("-"))

doesn't work - I assume due to a property of integer maths that means it wants to draw several hundred hyphens (which is what happens)

Have I missed something?

Post Edited By Moderator (Joshua Donelson (Parallax)) : 10/23/2009 4:55:28 AM GMT

potatohead

Well, how many hyphens is your max on the LCD?

Right now, you've got your long times 15! That's an awful lot of hyphens. Why not take your long and divide by 10, for example. That would only be 6 hyphens.

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potatohead

...err wait a minute. I see the division and realize what you are doing there. Makes sense.

Have you tried just a simple division, without the multiply step, and have you verified that the value does, in fact, range 0 to 60?

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Hugh

Sending the value of "((AnsaA*15)/60)" to the LCD as a decimal gives "14" (with AnsaA = 58)

I'm now wondering whether I have an accidentally nested repeat loop. Time for sleep...!

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