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MEL PICBASIC Forum - mel PIC BASIC Pro https://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/ Discussion area for microEngineeringLabs Pic Basic Pro Compiler en Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:19:29 GMT vBulletin 60 https://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/images/misc/rss.png MEL PICBASIC Forum - mel PIC BASIC Pro https://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/ memory full https://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/showthread.php/27113-memory-full?goto=newpost Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:33:32 GMT Hi all,

I have a application with the 16F882 and have add some data. But the memory is run over.
The '882 = 2048 words, "883 is only 4096 words.

I drive a LCD (1602) RS485 and some LEDs and buttons. Not really exciting.

But, I have 30 Hub's (0 to 29) to Open and Close and show on the LCD.

All 30 Open and Close strings are different.

After 8 Hub's in the program the memory ("882) runs out. Any advice?

Hub_ID = 0 ' Hub Open

high EN_RS485 ' Enable RS485
pause 5
hserout [0,2,0,16,67,45,255,15,222,3] ' Bus open
LCDOut $fe,$C0,"Hub ",dec Hub_ID, " is Open "
pause 5 ' Wait for last byte out
low EN_RS485 ' Disable RS485

pause 1000

high EN_RS485 ' Enable RS485
pause 5
hserout [0,2,0,16,67,47,255,15,220,3] ' Bus close
LCDOut $fe,$C0,"Hub ",dec Hub_ID, " is Close "
pause 5 ' Wait for last byte out
low EN_RS485 ' Disable RS485

pause 1000

' Do next Hub ]]> mel PIC BASIC Pro Gevo https://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/showthread.php/27113-memory-full LCDOUT command followed by variable data https://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/showthread.php/27112-LCDOUT-command-followed-by-variable-data?goto=newpost Wed, 11 Mar 2026 08:55:52 GMT Hi,

This must be recurrent subject but/and I can't recall how to handle this.

My project is about displaying time and adapting the output format to the number of digits to display adjusting mainly the number of spaces.

Since each LCDOUT command is 47 WORDs heavy, I'd like to avoid having to repeat this command all over my program.

This is a piece of my current code where one can see that I need to repeat the LCDOUT command often to fit the placement of characters.

Code:

' Display time in "0:00:00" format

IF Hours > 0 THEN    ' " 0:00:00"

    LCDOUT $FE,$2," ",DEC Hours,":",DEC2 Minutes,":",DEC2 Seconds

    RETURN

ENDIF



IF Minutes > 9 THEN ' "   00:00"

    IF LapDisplay THEN 'Lap is displayed

        IF Lap > 9 THEN 'Lap is 2 characters wide

            LCDOUT $FE,2,DEC2 Lap," ",DEC Minutes,":",DEC2 Seconds

        ELSE 'Lap is 1 character wide

            LCDOUT $FE,2,DEC1 Lap,"  ",DEC Minutes,":",DEC2 Seconds

        ENDIF

    ELSE 'no Lap display

        LCDOUT $FE,2,"   ",DEC Minutes,":",DEC2 Seconds

    ENDIF

    RETURN

ENDIF



IF Minutes >= 0 THEN    ' "    0:00"

    IF LapDisplay THEN

        IF Lap > 9 THEN

            LCDOUT $FE,2,DEC2 Lap,"  ",DEC Minutes,":",DEC2 Seconds

        ELSE

            LCDOUT $FE,2,DEC1 Lap,"   ",DEC Minutes,":",DEC2 Seconds

        ENDIF

    ELSE

        LCDOUT $FE,2,"    ",DEC Minutes,":",DEC2 Seconds

    ENDIF

    RETURN

ENDIF

How can I set a number of SPACEs by the mean of a variable?

Is there another way to achieve this? ]]> mel PIC BASIC Pro flotulopex https://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/showthread.php/27112-LCDOUT-command-followed-by-variable-data