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problems with debug terminal

ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
edited 2003-04-17 22:00 in General Discussion
Greetings,
I found a couple problems with the debug terminal (Ver 2.0 beta 1)
The first one is that my 'Debug Terminal #2' has no white 'transmit'
box at the top. I pushed the white box up and now can't get it to
come back down. (I know...it sounds like a personal problem [noparse];)[/noparse]
The 'pulldown' icon appears when you put the cursor over the top line
of the blue box but the white box does not pull back down.
Second problem is I cannot paste text (^C) into the transmit box on
any of the terminals. When I hit paste, it pastes into the
programming space that is behind the debug terminal. Not exactly what
I was trying to achieve. I have to send a 32 character line to the
stamp to test a serin parse function and dont wan't to type it each
time.
Any help on either problem would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Paul

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  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2003-04-17 19:58
    --- In basicstamps@yahoogroups.com, "Paul" <prcoy@y...> wrote:
    > Greetings,
    > I found a couple problems with the debug terminal (Ver 2.0 beta 1)
    > The first one is that my 'Debug Terminal #2' has no white
    > 'transmit' box at the top. I pushed the white box up and now can't
    > get it to come back down. (I know...it sounds like a personal
    > problem [noparse];)[/noparse]

    Just as my doctor says when I tell him "It hurts when I do this",
    don't do that! ;-) Actually, that sounds like a legitimate bug. I
    just tried it myself, and it did the same thing. To fix it, I had to
    edit the registry entry.

    The registry key is HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ParallaxInc\Stamp\1.32
    \DebugXPos (where X is 1, 2, 3 or 4)

    The value will be something like 0132,0090,0851,0614,0000,0000. You
    can fix your debug terminal by setting the last value to something
    like 0060. (At a minimum, it needs to be greater than zero.)


    > Second problem is I cannot paste text (^C) into the transmit box
    > on any of the terminals. When I hit paste, it pastes into the
    > programming space that is behind the debug terminal. Not exactly
    > what I was trying to achieve. I have to send a 32 character line to
    > the stamp to test a serin parse function and dont wan't to type it
    > each time.

    This is the same problem that the Find/Replace dialog has. The work-
    around is to right-click in the transmit box, and select "Paste" from
    the pop-up context menu.

    Good luck,
    Greg Ross
  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2003-04-17 20:11

    Original Message
    From: "gwrosss" <GWR@P...>

    | The registry key is HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ParallaxInc\Stamp\1.32
    | \DebugXPos (where X is 1, 2, 3 or 4)
    |
    | The value will be something like 0132,0090,0851,0614,0000,0000. You
    | can fix your debug terminal by setting the last value to something
    | like 0060. (At a minimum, it needs to be greater than zero.)

    Are you sure this works? I messed around with this and couldn't get it to
    work. I tried all kinds of values from 0-100, and none of them seemed to fix
    it. I re-started the program after each reg-edit, but I didn't reboot my
    machine. I don't think a reboot is necessary, though, because options like
    ToolbarVisible work fine...

    - Robert
  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2003-04-17 20:58
    Thanks Greg, It worked. (but you can't have the program running when
    you do it or it reverts back when you close the program..I think)

    Paul

    --- In basicstamps@yahoogroups.com, "gwrosss" <GWR@P...> wrote:
    > --- In basicstamps@yahoogroups.com, "Paul" <prcoy@y...> wrote:
    > > Greetings,
    > > I found a couple problems with the debug terminal (Ver 2.0 beta 1)
    > > The first one is that my 'Debug Terminal #2' has no white
    > > 'transmit' box at the top. I pushed the white box up and now
    can't
    > > get it to come back down. (I know...it sounds like a personal
    > > problem [noparse];)[/noparse]
    >
    > Just as my doctor says when I tell him "It hurts when I do this",
    > don't do that! ;-) Actually, that sounds like a legitimate bug. I
    > just tried it myself, and it did the same thing. To fix it, I had
    to
    > edit the registry entry.
    >
    > The registry key is
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ParallaxInc\Stamp\1.32
    > \DebugXPos (where X is 1, 2, 3 or 4)
    >
    > The value will be something like 0132,0090,0851,0614,0000,0000. You
    > can fix your debug terminal by setting the last value to something
    > like 0060. (At a minimum, it needs to be greater than zero.)
    >
    >
    > > Second problem is I cannot paste text (^C) into the transmit box
    > > on any of the terminals. When I hit paste, it pastes into the
    > > programming space that is behind the debug terminal. Not exactly
    > > what I was trying to achieve. I have to send a 32 character line
    to
    > > the stamp to test a serin parse function and dont wan't to type
    it
    > > each time.
    >
    > This is the same problem that the Find/Replace dialog has. The work-
    > around is to right-click in the transmit box, and select "Paste"
    from
    > the pop-up context menu.
    >
    > Good luck,
    > Greg Ross
  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2003-04-17 21:06
    Gee don't I get free stuff for finding legitimate bugs?

    *chuckles*

    Paul

    > Actually, that sounds like a legitimate bug. I
    > > just tried it myself, and it did the same thing. To fix it, I had
    > to
    > > edit the registry entry.
  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2003-04-17 21:30
    --- In basicstamps@yahoogroups.com, "Paul" <prcoy@y...> wrote:
    > Thanks Greg, It worked. (but you can't have the program running
    when
    > you do it or it reverts back when you close the program..I think)
    >
    > Paul

    I believe you're correct.
  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2003-04-17 21:34
    --- In basicstamps@yahoogroups.com, "Robert Ussery" <uavscience@f...>
    wrote:
    >
    >
    Original Message
    > From: "gwrosss" <GWR@P...>
    >
    > | The registry key is
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ParallaxInc\Stamp\1.32
    > | \DebugXPos (where X is 1, 2, 3 or 4)
    > |
    > | The value will be something like 0132,0090,0851,0614,0000,0000.
    You
    > | can fix your debug terminal by setting the last value to something
    > | like 0060. (At a minimum, it needs to be greater than zero.)
    >
    > Are you sure this works? I messed around with this and couldn't get
    it to
    > work. I tried all kinds of values from 0-100, and none of them
    seemed to fix
    > it. I re-started the program after each reg-edit, but I didn't
    reboot my
    > machine. I don't think a reboot is necessary, though, because
    options like
    > ToolbarVisible work fine...
    >
    > - Robert

    As Paul discovered (and I didn't think to mention) you need to quit
    the editor before making the registry changes.

    Greg Ross
  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2003-04-17 22:00

    Original Message
    From: "gwrosss" <GWR@P...>
    | As Paul discovered (and I didn't think to mention) you need to quit
    | the editor before making the registry changes.

    Ooooopss... Duh!
    I shoulda known better! [noparse]:o[/noparse])

    - Robert
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