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.