Flowcode 5 Anyone?

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Well guys thanks for pummeling me with your comments, Jeez, all I'm trying to do is find a way to make my program work, with interrupts or whatever. But I have not been to college to study computer languages, like you guys. Also I don't work for MELabs, like some of you guys. All I know is that it is impossible for me to comprehend how to do it. Yeah, I know, go to Darrels website and read this post and that post. Well I still don't get it, Goddamn. I either need an easier program or I need to get out, altogether.

[Picstar]

My apologies, but just a follow up, here is what I need: As part of my program I need an interrupt or timer to count pulses in the background,store that value in a variable, then enter a second loop where it counts pulses again and compares it to the first variable and makes corrections through a stepper motor. I believe this is possible with PBP but I have absolutely no experience with assembly or C. Yes, I found out how to use an interrupt to to turn on an LED, but it just gets over my head as to how to do this in the background and making adjustments at the same time. Oh, and Art, you are probably right about moving on to a what? A risc assembler? Well, as I said unless this could be programmed in BASIC, then I couldn't use it. A simple question, can what I want to do be done? Can it be done in PBP? If not then I am at the end of the road and will have to put my program to bed and move on to something else. Please don't answer in riddles that I am supposed to solve. Thanks in advance.

[Art]

Yes it can be done in PBP. Oh, with a little assembler because part of the interrupt handler is assembler.
What I meant was, as you progress, if PBP holds you back, another basic product would not be a solution.
RISC assembler is the pic's native language.

[Picstar]

Well I guess thats it then, I cannot comprehend assembly. I guess i am at the end of the road. Thanks anyway.

[Picstar]

Maybe I am going about this whole thing wrong. The pulses that come from a vehicle speed sensor should be able to be converted into into a straight d.c. voltage with the addition of a capacitor. That way the program doesn't have to wait through a count statement, it can just read the voltage from an adc port and make adjustments. Of course the adc needs a short pause itself in order to operate correctly. Its either that or have another chip doing all of the counting and sending its info to my pic. (sounds pretty deep to me).