Serial Demo Program
10gigbill
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I am trying the serial demo program on the prop demo board.
The demo is setup to run on pins 30 and 31 and sez to use the programming connection.
I am plugged in to the demo board with USB. Can I run the parallax serial terminal out the USB port?
I am old and I think of serial as RS232, which is what I want to use in my project, and I don’t know what Com port USB is on.
And it then sez to run the terminal program before the prop program is finished downloading. And that I can’t do out the same port
at the same time?
By the way I started with FORTRAN 50 years ago and this modern Object-Based, Object-Method-Reference, is driving me nuts.
But I can see that when I do get it figured out it will be really cool.
thanks
Hummmm?
The demo is setup to run on pins 30 and 31 and sez to use the programming connection.
I am plugged in to the demo board with USB. Can I run the parallax serial terminal out the USB port?
I am old and I think of serial as RS232, which is what I want to use in my project, and I don’t know what Com port USB is on.
And it then sez to run the terminal program before the prop program is finished downloading. And that I can’t do out the same port
at the same time?
By the way I started with FORTRAN 50 years ago and this modern Object-Based, Object-Method-Reference, is driving me nuts.
But I can see that when I do get it figured out it will be really cool.
thanks
Hummmm?
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maybe that new book will be.
Bill
Glad you sorted your problem. Don't hesitate to ask any questions as there are plenty of great people on this forum willing to help.
Don't worry much about the Objects. They are not true objects in the modern sense, but rather self-contained subroutines with their variables.
Ah Fortran IV and the whatfour??? compiler
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But it is! Darn this new fangled USB nonsense.
The simple answer is you plug in a usb to serial thingy (I just bought 10 for a silly price of about $25) or the equivalent of that on a chip and the computer adds it as another serial port. So I have real serial ports 1 and 2 and when I plug in this adaptor thing it works as com3. The prop programs and talks on any of those.
Anyway, if you can program a propeller then you ought to be able to use the same lines to talk to the program you just downloaded. There are many solutions - inbuilt terminal programs in the proptool, the alternate prop tool called BST, and teraterm, hyperterminal etc, and even a new fangled CP/M terminal program I just wrote. It is just that two programs on a PC can't use the same serial port at the same time, so you need to wait for downloading to complete before firing up a terminal program. Sometimes if you are too quick it really upsets windows and a ctrl/alt/del will reveal the serial bit of a program is still running even if you have shut it down.
Hang in there. I went through this frustrating phase only about 6 months ago.
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Thanks again.
Bill