.bat activated download of stamp routine

MacroEng

I am interested in creating a batch file that will automatically download a routine to a stamp.

Are DOS commands sufficient for this activity?· Or is a Windows macro more suited?
Do I merely copy the .bpx file to the correct COM port?· Is this possible with DOS?

Any help is appreciated.
Matthew

Jon Williams

Sure -- you can call StampW.exe from a command line, telling it to compile and download a file completely silently (the Scribbler Robot IDE takes advantage of this capability).· You can see all of the switches using the /help switch

>stampw.exe /help



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Jon Williams
Applications Engineer, Parallax

allanlane5

In the Parallax IDE, if you go to File, Generate Object Code, you can then generate an EXE file of your object code and a loader for that code.

Then, when you execute that EXE file, the resulting code will be downloaded to a connected BS2.

You could also select to create a StampLoader.exe, and a *.OBJ file of your compiled code. In this case, I believe you can download with a command line "StampLoader /COM1 /NoInfo Myobj.obj"

For more detail, run "Stamploader /?", and you'll see a page with all the options.

Note the difference between this approach, and the StampW.exe approach, is in this one you store your code as a tokenized form, where with StampW.exe you store it as source.

Up to you which one you pick.· Either way the same code gets downloaded into your BS2.

MacroEng

Thanks guys.· Your speed with which you have answered has been greatly appreciated.·

Matthew