serout question

basicstampede

How do I do this?

I need to ask user to enter a text character, then I need to send it out using serout.

For example, the user may type "I love basic stamps".· Then I have to send out

Say CON $00
EOM CON $AA
serout tx, baud, [noparse][[/noparse]Say, "I love basic stamps", EOM]

This is for a EMIC board.

I've read the example program.· It shows a constant string stored in EEPROM.

However, I wish to modify the program so that EMIC says what the user types.· The length of the message may vary.

Any insight would be appreciated.·

allanlane5

Check out the "STR" modifier, and BYTE arrays.

Tom Walker

I am assuming that you are using the "vanilla" BS2 which has NO native string handling capabilities and 26 bytes of variable space. Each character received by SERIN could be assigned to ta different variable, but then you would be limited to VERY short strings. I haven't looked at the timing requirements of the EMIC, but you might get away with something like the following mutated pseudo-code:

Serin character
If chracter is not equal to return then Serout Say
While character is not equal to return
Serout character
Serin character
end while
serout EOM

In essence, you would build your string on the fly on the EMIC. As I said, this would heavily depend on the timing requirements of the EMIC.

The same kind of concept could more easily be handled by one of the BS2s with "Scratchpad" RAM and the STR capabilities.

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