A bright idea ?

Nav

I've got Version 2.1 of PBasic Editor running under Windows XP.

When I create a subroutine with the name 'bright' the editor seems to mistake it for a reserved word.· It changes 'bright' to 'BRIGHT' and colours it Magenta.· According to the preferences in the Editor, it seems that 'bright' is being recognised a Predefined Constant or Predefined Variable.· I was using the word as a subroutine name in a program for the MAX7219.

If you just carry regardless and do a Syntax Check on the program the word 'bright' is highlighted and·you get an error message saying "Expected a Label, Variable or Instruction".· I'm just curious as to the reason for this.· Sorry for the lame pun in the heading. [noparse]:)[/noparse]

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Lee Harker

Nav,
You might want to check out the help file. It appears that BRIGHT is a reserved constant used with the X10 commands as in DIM & BRIGHT.

Lee

Bruce Bates

Nav -

Lee is indeed correct. You can find all of the reserved words in Appendix B of the Parallax PBASIC Stamp Manual.

Regards,

Bruce Bates

allanlane5

First, don't use keywords for labels. It's just confusing. I *know* you didn't know 'bright' was a keyword, but now you do.
Second, you *should* be able to use something like 'MyBright', 'FullBright', 'GoBright', 'LightBright', or similar.

Jon Williams

The lesson here is that if the 2.1 editor colors a word, that word is either a PBASIC keyword or a predefined constant.

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Jon Williams
Applications Engineer, Parallax
Dallas Office

Nav

Yup, had a look in Appendix B of the Basic Stamp Manual and there it is.
Thanks for your responses, guys.