methods with arguments in Pbasic?

christiand

Hi! I am looking for a command in Pbasic similar to methods in Java, where I can send in an argument.
I found GOSUB, but it doesn't seem I can send in an argument to it. This is what I want to do.

' {$STAMP BS2}
' {$PBASIC 2.5}

sData   VAR     Byte
DO
SERIN 16, 16468, [noparse][[/noparse]DEC sData]

GO_SUB method(sData) 'send variable sData to other instance of program

method(sData):
move motor to position sData 'pseudo-code

LOOP

This is how it would look in java:

moveMotor(100);

moveMotor (int pos) {
motorPosition = pos;
}

Is there anything similar in Pbasic?

regards / Christian

Mike Green

PBasic doesn't have any subroutine calls other than GOSUB and that doesn't provide for arguments or a return value. You'll have to do that by leaving the arguments you want in global variables of your choosing and returning any result the same way.

allanlane5

Well, something similar can be done:

T1 VAR BYTE
sData VAR Byte

DO
· SERIN 16, 16468, [noparse][[/noparse]DEC sData]
· T1 = sData
· GOSUB MoveMotor ' (t1)· ' The 'tick' being a comment.
LOOP

sub MoveMotor
· MotorPosition = T1
· return