Indexing Virtual Ports

[ERMEGM]

Hello,

I'm trying to work on something using Darryl's VirtualPort.bas. Instead of having one macro, I've created several macros, each having their own macro name. What I was wondering (if it can be done) is this, when writing the ports, can you use an index to display the various macros.

As an example, I have created macros pair1, pair2, pair3 and pair4. Is it possible to be able to call up the macros by entering:

@   OutputPort pair[index]

and displaying them by:

@   WritePort  _Pattern, pair[index]

?

I only ask because I have done this and get errors like:
Found label after column 1. (pair)
Illegal character ([)

I'm trying to do this without having to create labels for each of these and having 4 times the code when once will do with indexing.

The reason for this setup is for a menu I've created in my program. I'm asking it to read some data and display it on one pair of outputs. When an input is received, index is incremented by 1 and the next set of data is read and displayed on a second set of outputs. This happen two more times, so being able to index the macros would be ideal. Do you think this is possible?

Thanks in advance,
Tony

[Darrel Taylor]

Nope, can't do that.
But you could do something similar wth SELECT.

SELECT CASE Index
    CASE 0 : @   OutputPort pair0
    CASE 1 : @   OutputPort pair1
    CASE 2 : @   OutputPort pair2
    CASE 3 : @   OutputPort pair3
END SELECT

;-------------------------------

SELECT CASE Index
    CASE 0 : @   WritePort  _Pattern, pair0
    CASE 1 : @   WritePort  _Pattern, pair1
    CASE 2 : @   WritePort  _Pattern, pair2
    CASE 3 : @   WritePort  _Pattern, pair3
END SELECT

[ERMEGM]

How come it's never so obvious when you're trying to figure it out yourself? Thanks again Darrel.