Chatting w/ Your Stamp
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Am having a go at using the DEBUG terminal's 2-way communications as
a means of interactive control of Stamp program. Seems like a very
nifty tool and appears to be working great so far. Has anyone used
this capability enough to offer any tips, advice, gotchas to look
out for and so on?
Thanks and regards,
Steve
a means of interactive control of Stamp program. Seems like a very
nifty tool and appears to be working great so far. Has anyone used
this capability enough to offer any tips, advice, gotchas to look
out for and so on?
Thanks and regards,
Steve
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There is one small thing to watch out for if you are using single
letter commands. Some keys act as commands to the editor, when you
are expecting the letter to be sent to your stamp. For example, the
letter "p" activates the Pause feature, and suddenly you find your
program totally unresponsive. You might not notice that you have to
press "Resume" to get it talking again and go off looking for bugs in
your program. The capital letter "P" acts differently and is sent to
the stamp as expected. There are a couple of other things like that.
For example, letter "l" I think returns you to the editor window
instead of sending the letter to the stamp, but "L" is sent to the
stamp. Some of the control keys work, for example "^E" does in fact
send ascii code 5 to the stamp, but "^R" does not send ascii code 18
(I forget what it does instead). You get the picture.
-- Tracy
>Am having a go at using the DEBUG terminal's 2-way communications as
>a means of interactive control of Stamp program. Seems like a very
>nifty tool and appears to be working great so far. Has anyone used
>this capability enough to offer any tips, advice, gotchas to look
>out for and so on?
>
>
>Thanks and regards,
>
>Steve
>
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Much obliged to Your Guruness for the sound advice.
For any who might be interested, the application is an interactive
Stamp program to run the on-chip debugger function found on some
of the newer PICs. Definitely having fun now.
Regards,
Steve
Tracy Allen wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> There is one small thing to watch out for if you are using single
> letter commands. Some keys act as commands to the editor, when you
> are expecting the letter to be sent to your stamp...