Glad it helped. Though as a longtime hardware serial interface user, I DO strongly suggest going the ascii route. That Arduino function should work as-is (with the bug fixes). Couple it with really simple code on the LC side and you're done.
write ("LED" && tValue & CR) to file thePort ~ Chris Innanen ~ Nonsanity On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Thomas McGrath III <mcgra...@mac.com>wrote: > Well, Thank you very much the numtochar worked perfectly. SInce most of > these are either two or three numbers being sent for motor/stepper and LED > and will not be more than 255 I will stick with the numtochar() for this. I > will still try to come up with a parser for the Arduino for passing commands > and arguments but a tleast for now I am Beating that LED into submission and > am very happy about it. > > > > -- Tom McGrath III > http://lazyriver.on-rev.com > 3mcgr...@comcast.net > > On Feb 4, 2011, at 12:23 PM, form wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:18 PM, form <f...@nonsanity.com> wrote: > > > >> > >> else > >> ++bufloc; // next read will go in the next buf char > > > > > > For safety's sake... > > > > else > > { > > ++bufloc; // next read will go in the next buf char > > if ( bufloc > 255 ) > > { > > // ERROR - buffer overflow - line too long - missing CR? > (print > > something...) > > memset( buf, 0, sizeof( buf ) ); > > bufloc = 0; > > } > > } > > > > Looking at that code and knowing that error would crash it... I couldn't > > stand it anymore. :) > > > > ~ Chris Innanen > > ~ Nonsanity > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode