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MacGeek117

Would this work as coded, or would I have to step through each line of nulls?(I don't have a Prop yet.)
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Mike Green

I'm not sure what you're trying to do. The rgb.set routine will receive the address of the first byte in the DAT section ("welcome"). As you've written it, this address will be the address of the start of a block of 64 zero bytes. In the rgb.set routine, you can (and must) organize this any way you want.

MacGeek117

What I'm trying to do is drive the RGB LED Matrix Serial backpack from SparkFun.(I've posted the docs on it) What I'm asking is the way this is coded, will the the object read the whole block, or only the first line?

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Mike Green

The compiler just compiles the DAT section into a series of byte values, so all 64 bytes are sequential with no way to tell which byte was from which line of the program. If you write your object to start with the byte whose address is passed and continue through 64 successive bytes, yes, it will read the whole block you've written in your fragment.

MacGeek117

Thank you, Mike! You're a lifesaver!
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